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Masamichi Ueno; Kayo Fujii; Yasunori Kashiwagi – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
This paper studies the theory and practice of Minna in Manabi, as the Japanese concept of learning from the perspective of moral education. The Japanese word Minna, which means "all" or "everyone," plays an important role in Manabi. The word "Minna" is often found in textbooks used in moral education classes, and…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Ethical Instruction, Asian Culture, Foreign Countries
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Kitayama, Yuka; Hashizaki, Yoriko; Osler, Audrey – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2022
Both education for democratic citizenship and human rights education tend to emphasise political and legal learning. In both human rights education and moral education in Japan, however, there has been a tendency to give particular attention to interpersonal elements of learning such as kindness and sympathy. This article draws on feminist…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Democratic Values
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Bamkin, Sam – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This paper examines mechanisms in the Japanese education system that 'bring in' knowledge of practice to the process of policy translation. The paper firstly draws on the enactment of recent curriculum reforms in Japan to define a group of actors -- practitioner advocates -- who utilise their identity as members of the teaching community to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Advocacy
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Han, Hyemin; Park, Sung Choon; Kim, Jongsung; Jeong, Changwoo; Kunii, Yutaka; Kim, Sora – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
This study is a comparative analysis of the characteristics of moral exemplars presented in moral education textbooks in Korea and Japan. The purpose of the study is to examine and compare moral values presented through the lives and stories of moral exemplars in the two countries that have moral education as an independent and separate subject…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Ethical Instruction, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
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Sevilla, Anton Luis – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2018
One important task in internationalizing Japanese education is educating Japanese citizens to become "global citizens." This paper is a philosophical analysis of how Global Education deals with the problem of cultural-moral difference (moral conflict that arises between different cultures). The usual approaches taken in Global Education…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Moral Values, Global Education, Praxis
Shiota, Shingo; Sakai, Kyohei; Kobayashi, Keita – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
This paper presents a new diagnostic system for information ethics education. In order to educate children about information ethics, it is necessary to know the stage at which they currently are in terms of their knowledge of the same. Some actual condition surveys have been conducted by the Cabinet Office and the National Police Agency to gauge…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Diagnostic Tests, Internet, Computer Use
Sakai, Kyohei; Shiota, Shingo; Eguchi, Kiyotaka – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
In conventional information moral education, lessons often focus only on trouble cases and perpetrators without examining the level of awareness among the parties involved. This is especially apparent among students who communicate over the Internet. For example, one student's perspective of writing ill on the Internet might greatly differ from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Workshops, Internet
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Nakayama, Osamu – Journal of Character Education, 2015
While moral education is taught in the primary--and some in--the secondary grades, morality and ethics education has not been a subject since World War II in tertiary grades. Neverless Japanese universities have neither academic departments nor courses solely devoted to scholarship or instruction in the area of moral studies. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, College Instruction, Universities
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Nishino, Mayumi – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
This article outlines trends in the ongoing reform of moral education in Japan by examining how this is dealing with problems and issues which have arisen from past practice in moral education in schools. The Moral Class has been incorporated in the elementary and junior high school curriculum as "a non-subject lesson" since 1958. In…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Toyoda, Mitsuyo – Educational Perspectives, 2012
The author's first impression of the philosophy for children program in Hawai'i (p4c) was a strong, intuitive feeling that this approach to education can be a vehicle to change the world. This feeling has not faded at all in the course of her five-year commitment to p4c. Yet, as the author has exchanged her ideas about p4c with teachers and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Exchange Programs
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Chia, Yeow Tong – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
The term "Asian values" became popular in the political discourse in the 1980s and 1990s. The most vocal proponents of Asian values are Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir and their deputies and government officials, as well as post-Tiananmen Chinese leaders. Most notable of all these three strands of the Asian values debate…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Ethical Instruction
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Maruyama, Yasushi; Ueno, Tetsu – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2010
Ethics education for professionals has become popular in Japan over the last two decades. Many professional schools now require students to take an applied ethics or professional ethics course. In contrast, very few courses of professional ethics for teaching exist or have been taught in Japan. In order to obtain suggestions for teacher education,…
Descriptors: Nurses, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Ethical Instruction
Willis, David Blake, Ed.; Rappleye, Jeremy, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2011
Sparked by the confluence of accelerating domestic transformation and increasingly explicit impacts from "globalization", the Japanese education system has undergone tremendous changes during the turbulence of the past decade. This volume, which brings together some of the foremost scholars in the field of Japanese education, analyzes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, International Education, Educational Policy
Zhao, Yali; Lin, Lin; Hoge, John D. – International Education Journal, 2007
More than any previous generation, today's students need to develop a global perspective and be knowledgeable about other nations in order to play a better role on the global stage. This paper first reviews some earlier and current studies on students' knowledge of the world, mainly conducted in the United States, and then it describes the global…
Descriptors: Global Education, International Relations, Foreign Countries, Surveys
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Schwartz, Sherry – Educational Leadership, 2007
Japan's elementary and junior high schools have a formal, nationally mandated moral curriculum called Kokoro-no-kyoiku--education of the heart. Japanese educators include moral growth as an integral part of one's intellectual growth and believe that democratic societies must promote virtuous decision making. Moral education in Japan nurtures the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Altruism, Ethical Instruction
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