Change Strategies 2
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Achievement Gap 1
Advanced Courses 1
Beginning Teacher Induction 1
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Educational Perspectives 13
Takagi, Akiko 2
Che, Yi 1
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Goto, Sunao 1
Hayashi, Akiko 1
Honda, Tokio 1
Horike, Yukiyo 1
Imamura, Hiromi 1
Kumano, Ruriko 1
Matsuoka, Ryoji 1
McEwan, Hunter 1
Minagawa, Haruo 1
Nakayama, Natsue 1
Nishinosono, Haruo 1
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Ozasa, Toshiaki 1
Sakai, Shien 1
Shieh, Sheau-Hue 1
Shimizu, Minoru 1
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Tobin, Joseph 1
Toyoda, Mitsuyo 1
Weir, George R. S. 1
Journal Articles 13
Opinion Papers 1
Practicing Philosophy for Children in the Search for a Better Society
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
Japanese English Education and Learning: A History of Adapting Foreign Cultures
Shimizu, Minoru – Educational Perspectives, 2010
This essay is a history that relates the Japanese tradition of accepting and adapting aspects of foreign culture, especially as it applies to the learning of foreign languages. In particular, the essay describes the history of English education in Japan by investigating its developments after the Meiji era. The author addresses the issues from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Promoting Learner Autonomy: Student Perceptions of Responsibilities in a Language Classroom in East Asia
Sakai, Shien; Takagi, Akiko; Chu, Man-Ping – Educational Perspectives, 2010
With the advent of communicative language teaching in East Asia, the idea of learner autonomy has become a topic of discussion and a goal among language teachers. The idea of autonomy raises important questions that need to be further explored, particularly in terms of students taking responsibility for learning. While examining the English…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learning Strategies, Personal Autonomy, Learning Processes
Teacher Certification Renewal System: An Analysis Based on a Nation-Wide Survey of Japanese Teachers of English
Nakayama, Natsue; Takagi, Akiko; Imamura, Hiromi – Educational Perspectives, 2010
In October 2007, three education bills, including the Revised Teacher's License Law were approved by the Central Education Council in February and submitted to the Diet. The purpose of the Revised Teacher's License Law was "to ensure teachers systematically acquire up-to-date knowledge and skills to maintain the professional competencies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers
Problems in the Assistant Language Teacher System and English Activity at Japanese Public Elementary Schools
Ohtani, Chie – Educational Perspectives, 2010
In 2001, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) released the "Rainbow Plan" as the educational reform plan for the twenty-first century. As part of the plan, MEXT will make English education activities compulsory at Japanese public elementary schools beginning in 2011. The purpose of the Rainbow Plan…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Disregard of Opportunity Gap Inequalities in Policy Debates over Mandatory English Education at Public Elementary Schools in Japan
Matsuoka, Ryoji – Educational Perspectives, 2010
On January 17, 2008, the Japanese Central Education Council submitted a newly revised set of official curriculum guidelines to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan. These guidelines for elementary schools will become effective in the 2011 academic year and include a controversial new policy: the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Second Languages, Student Diversity
The English Program at Murasakino Senior High School
Minagawa, Haruo – Educational Perspectives, 2010
Murasakino High School is a municipal senior high school located in the northern part of Kyoto, an ancient capital city of Japan. With a little over one thousand students studying in three grades (from fifteen to eighteen years of age), Murasakino has a distinctive scholastic tradition that makes it different from other high schools in Kyoto. Over…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, High Schools, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Learning from Analysis of Japanese EFL Texts
Weir, George R. S.; Ozasa, Toshiaki – Educational Perspectives, 2010
Japan has a long tradition of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). A common feature of EFL courses is reliance on specific textbooks as a basis for graded teaching, and periods in Japanese EFL history are marked by the introduction of different textbook series. These sets of textbooks share the common goal of taking students from…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
The Bukkyo University and University of Hawai'i College of Education Partnership
McEwan, Hunter; Goto, Sunao; Horike, Yukiyo – Educational Perspectives, 2010
For the past ten years, the College of Education at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM-COE) and Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan have enjoyed a special relationship designed to promote cooperation and academic exchanges between the two institutions. The agreement of cooperation was signed on June 5, 2000 by President Shinko Nakai of Bukkyo…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Lessons from China and Japan for Preschool Practice in the United States
Che, Yi; Hayashi, Akiko; Tobin, Joseph – Educational Perspectives, 2007
For the past six years the authors have been working together on a major study of early childhood education in China, Japan, and the United States. This study, "Continuity and Change in Preschools in Three Cultures," is a sequel to "Preschools in Three Cultures," a book by Joseph Tobin, David Wu, and Dana Davidson that was…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Preschool Curriculum
The US Occupation and Japan's New Democracy
Kumano, Ruriko – Educational Perspectives, 2007
During the US Occupation of Japan (1945-1952), a victorious America attempted to reform Japanese education by replacing Japan's tradition system of values with one that promoted American democratic values. The United States had considered the source of Japan's militarism to lie in the selfless loyalty and love of country that many older Japanese…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Cultural Education
The Impact of Life Stages on Parent-Child Relationships: A Comparative Look at Japanese & American University Students
Takei, Yoshimitsu; Honda, Tokio; Shieh, Sheau-Hue – Educational Perspectives, 2007
Adolescence is often considered a period in a person's life when important physiological and emotional changes occur. When discussing adolescence, however, it should not be forgotten that it is just another stage in one's life span between birth and death. By adopting a life-span perspective, researchers are more likely to consider contextual…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
A Smooth Road from Conventional Teaching to Distance Learning in Teacher Education
Nishinosono, Haruo – Educational Perspectives, 2002
As a result of rapid developments in information and communication technology (ICT), dramatic changes are taking place in approaches to teaching and learning in university and school classrooms. These changes offer new opportunities to explore entirely new methods of instruction in teacher education. ICT provides alternatives to conventional…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Styles, Distance Education, Foreign Countries