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Akiko Katayama – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Most L1 (first language) Japanese speakers in Japan seem to think that they are monolingual. While it appears that Japanese people accept monolingual-ness as normative in the nation, there is little situated understanding of what makes up this Japanese monolingual-ness. This study reports on repeated, long, and mostly unstructured interviews with…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Japanese, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Kazuhiko W. Nakamura; Kirie Miyajima; Akio Fujiwara; Kaoru Saito – Cogent Education, 2023
This study used class practices to verify the applicability of a web application specially developed for the observation in general elementary school classes of the blooming of cherry blossoms with time-lapse digital images. The learning effects of class practices on children's perceptions of the connection between familiar phenomena and climate…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Students, Climate
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Ikeda, Masafumi; Yamamoto, Masaya – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Colonial education worldwide has relied on various concepts, from trying to mirror the content of the sovereign country to developing unique content pertaining to the colonies themselves. In this paper, we examined the nature of colonial education for the Japanese in northeast China ("Manchuria") during the colonial period from the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Plants (Botany), Textbooks
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Nakamura, Kazuhiko W.; Fujiwara, Akio; Kobayashi, Hill Hiroki; Saito, Kaoru – Education Sciences, 2019
Ecocentric education programs should include a method for the in-depth understanding of multi-scale ecological time concepts. To accomplish this, the common restriction that ecocentric education should pertain only to realistic nature may have to be removed. The purpose of this research was to confirm the validity of a program featuring phenology…
Descriptors: Ecology, Climate, Time, Teaching Methods
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Anderson, David; Yamashita, Shuichi – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
Botanic and public gardens attract a significant number of people throughout the world who visit these spaces for a wide variety of reasons. Notwithstanding, the study of visitor experiences in such spaces is a much under-researched foci in the fields of museum education and visitor studies. This exploratory study examined the reflective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gardening, Asian Culture, Metacognition
Ghenai, Chaouki, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Securing the future of the human race will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the ecosphere of our planet can support. Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable exploitation of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Epistemology
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Hattori, Masasi; Oaksford, Mike – Cognitive Science, 2007
In this article, 41 models of covariation detection from 2 x 2 contingency tables were evaluated against past data in the literature and against data from new experiments. A new model was also included based on a limiting case of the normative phi-coefficient under an extreme rarity assumption, which has been shown to be an important factor in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Responses, Computer Simulation, Heuristics
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Katayama, Nobuyasu; Kanaizuka, Yasuhiro; Sudarmi, Rini; Yokohama, Yasutsugu – Journal of Biological Education, 2003
The method for extracting and separating hydrophobic photosynthetic pigments proposed by Katayama "et al." ("Japanese Journal of Phycology," 42, 71-77, 1994) has been improved to introduce it to student laboratories at the senior high school level. Silica gel powder was used for removing water from fresh materials prior to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Chemistry, Laboratories, Botany