This paper tells stories from a higher education study abroad collaboration entitled "Investigating Diversity, Human Rights and Civil Society in Japan and Australia." Starting from a pedagogical focus on students' active learning about human rights, this project has come to value relationship building--between academic institutions,…

Japanese universities have been characterized by critics as "leisurelands" where students concentrate too much on amusements and too little on learning. While university experience for Japanese students does not always result in acquiring testable academic knowledge as efficiently as in high school, the university does provide a setting…

This document describes some of the variables influencing the education of science teachers in Japan. One consideration involving the preservice education of science teachers relates to the type of undergraduate program. Both the Teacher Training System (TTS), in which the undergraduate students are based within the college of education, and the…