In Search of a Modern Confucius for Effective Teaching in Law : A Trial Project to Promote Interactive Learning in Taiwan (松浦好治教授退職記念論文集)
This paper observes and reviews the progress of interactive learning in a Taiwan eConfucius Drama Classroom. Based on accumulated findings in a law classroom of blended learning, an innovative pedagogy is introduced to promote conversational teaching with passive students. The Socratic pedagogies may have led the western movements towards interactive learning. Given a different educational heritage in Taiwan, the constructivist teaching value may be realised with culturally situated methods to achieve Socratic ends. The ideas of “guided independent learning” are thus proposed with the back-up of filed findings. In the classroom of a modern Confucius, the teacher remains to be respected, yet learning-centred pedagogies are adopted to lead the students to become active and reflective learners.
Creative Education in Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China
There are three experimental attempts in legal education of East Asia. These experiments promote creative education by introducing a new approach to innovative imagination and creative comparison in a multilingual setting. They use collaborative teaching and new IT tools in the context of “learning by doing.”
Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Contents Introduction 1 Section 1 – Executive summary 1. Request for follow-up in the concluding observations and the response of the Japanese government to this request 3 2. Obligations of States parties under the Convention 4 3. National machinery for implementation of the Convention 6 4. The need to strengthen the current weak implementation structure 7 Section 2: Paragraph 18 (Amendments to the Civil Code, etc.) 1. Japan's failure to fulfill its obligation to improve its national laws 7 2. Announcement of an " Outline of a Bill to Revise Part of the Civil Code " and background to the shelving of this bill 8 3. References to amending the Civil Code in the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality 9 4. Trends in case law concerning discrimination against children born out of wedlock 9 5. Other comments concerning the elimination of discrimination against children born out of wedlock 10 6. Calls for amendments to the law by civil society 11 Section 3: Paragraph 28 (Introduction of temporary special measures) 1. Request for the introduction of temporary special measures and the details thereof 11 2. Women's participation in policy decision-making processes 12 (1) Women's participation in the Diet and local assemblies: the current situation 12 (2) Implementation of temporary special measures in the political field 13 (3) Temporary special measures in the political field in the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality 14 (4) Temporary special measures that should be taken by the Japanese government 14 3. Women's participation in the administrative field 17 (1) Women's participation in the administrative field: the current situation 17 (2) Initiatives in the administrative field in the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality 18 (3) Issues that must be considered 21 4. Women's participation in the judicial field 22 (1) Women's participation in the judicial field: the current situation 22 (2) Initiatives in the judicial field in the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality 23 (3) Issues that must be considered 24 5. Temporary special measures in employment 24 (1) Introduction: follow up by the Japanese government over the past two years 24 (2) Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality 25 1) Numerical targets 25 2) Policies put forward for achieving numerical targets 25 (3) Policies currently being implemented to facilitate positive action 26 1) Major policies announced by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2011 26 2) Measures taken in public …