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Direct linkBlanchard, Lynda-ann; Nix, Mike – Human Rights Education Review, 2019
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,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Civil Rights, Study Abroad, Educational Cooperation
Download full textKaneko, Motohisa – Higher Education Forum, 2014
This paper reports findings from a large-scale student survey on their learning behaviors, and a faculty survey on their practices and beliefs in teaching, both in Japan. It was found that the Japanese students' time spent on learning fell substantially short of the required time prescribed by the Standards for the Establishment of Universities.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Huang, Carrie Jia-Li; Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Quint – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
Much of the research on assessing and comparing teacher education has focused on schools of education in westernized contexts. While teacher training programs in East Asia have received comparatively less attention than those in North America, Europe, and Australia, they may also offer practical insight through their similarities and differences.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Teacher Education Programs, Undergraduate Study
Nishimura, Shoji; Scott, Douglass J.; Kato, Shogo – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2009
In 2003, the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan, established the e-School, Japan's first complete undergraduate correspondence courses enabling students to acquire their bachelor degrees solely through e-learning. Supported by the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections, it has become possible to transmit…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Credits, Foreign Countries, Internet
Fararo, Kim – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Reform proposals for Japan's large higher education system include diminishing the trauma of university entrance examinations, strengthening the quality and diversity of undergraduate education, improving graduate school offerings, establishing a lifelong education system, and expanding the scope of international exchange programs. Politics are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, College Environment, College Students
Cordilia, Ann – 1989
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation
