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Mori, Chiho; Davies, Ian – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
This article discusses the types of citizenship education that are included in a sample of Japanese junior high school civics textbooks. Seven civics textbooks that have been authorized by the Ministry of Education for use in junior high school from the 2012 academic year were analysed in the context of fundamental issues in citizenship education…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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Davies, Ian; Mizuyama, Mitsuharu; Ikeno, Norio; Parmenter, Lynne; Mori, Chiho – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2013
The authors discuss findings from the project "Political Literacy in Japan and England". They do so to follow up on work published in this journal in 2011. The now completed project involved two schools in England and three schools in Japan, and had the aim of exploring what teachers would do in each country when asked to use the same…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Department for Education, 2011
To support the review of the National Curriculum, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) was commissioned by the Department for Education in the spring of 2011 to produce a report detailing curricular arrangements in a number of high-performing educational jurisdictions. The principal source of information for this report has been…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Educational Research, Research Reports, Foreign Countries
Arani, Mohammad Reza Sarkar – Online Submission, 2008
This article describes the process of national curriculum standards reform and the progress of applying the integrated curriculum from theory and research to practice. The curriculum council of Japanese government received an inquiry from Monbusho in August 1996 about "reform of the national curriculum". The council comprehensively…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Educational Change, Integrated Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Underwood, Paul R. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
While numerous studies in mainstream education have drawn on the Theory of Planned Behaviour to investigate curriculum impact, in English Language Teaching contexts such research is scant. This study applies the theory to anticipate the impact of the Japanese national curriculum for English, by exploring the beliefs of senior high school teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Grammar, Secondary School Teachers
Kawano, Marika Suziki – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation explores the issues related to the development of national identity amongst middle school students in Japan, from both macro and micro perspectives of the state's educational policy and the students' conception. While it is impossible to understand a national education without placing it in the larger context, the concept of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Private Schools
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Langager, Mark – Journal of Peace Education, 2009
History praxis can transform perceptions of the "other" by reshaping ideas about events transpiring between groups. Nevertheless, peace education research has rarely examined history teaching. This article addresses the potential for teaching peace through history teaching. After laying out a conceptual framework for understanding the…
Descriptors: Peace, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, History Instruction
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Bjork, Christopher – Comparative Education, 2009
This article examines the goals and consequences of an educational reform introduced in all Japanese schools beginning in 2002. The Integrated Studies (IS) programme was designed to increase teacher autonomy and to augment student interest in learning. The reform has the potential to alter significantly the way education is organised and delivered…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Trends
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Wieczorek, Craig C. – Educational Horizons, 2008
Knowing the great impact education has on a nation, the author decided to investigate the education systems in America and Japan. The aim of the study was to answer how educational systems or practices in Japan and America differ, and how Japanese practices might improve those of American educators and administrators. Besides many similarities,…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, School Restructuring, Asian Culture, Standardized Tests
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Sakamoto, Robin – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2008
Compulsory moral education has been included in the Japanese national curriculum since 1872. Recent demographic trends have created an unstable society, and with the increase in heinous juvenile crimes, urgent demands are being made for a more effective program. Japan's Education Reform Plan for the 21st Century has as its second major strategy…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Ethical Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Unks, Gerald – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
Japanese, Germans, and Britons value the study of foreign languages, art, and music and favor long school years, state-supported preschool activities, and homework. Examining other nations' curricula is a valuable exercise that helps U.S. educators question the cultural values embedded in their own education system. (10 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Comparative Education, Curriculum, Educational Philosophy
Arani, Mohammad Reza Sarkar; Matoba, Masami – Online Submission, 2006
In this paper we examine challenges of Japanese teachers' professional development which points to the essential change in in-service teacher training programs. Emphasis is placed here on an integrated model for professional development that should be deliberately designed to assist teacher training to construct an understanding of the spirit of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, National Curriculum, Educational Change, Inservice Teacher Education
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Mikio, Shiga – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2008
In 1997 English became a compulsory subject in Korean elementary schools. The education of English teachers for the elementary level was accelerated. The training curriculum was reformed according to the educational objective to enhance students' oral communication skills in English. Coupled to this change, the introduction of English Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
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Okuya, Tasaku; And Others – Technology Teacher, 1993
Describes the New National Curriculum of Industrial Arts Education that is used in Japan. Discusses the administration and content of the program and how it will continue into the twenty-first century. (JOW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Wheeler, Peggy – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2004
Masafumi Ogawa's paper presents challenge after challenge facing the teacher and the teacher educator in Japan. One has the sense that a lifetime of frustrations with the national curriculum, the set-up of student teaching, and the definition of music as a school subject each made its way into the paper. Even choosing to focus on teacher training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Student Teaching, National Curriculum
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