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Direct linkMohammad Reza Sarkar Arani; Bruce Lander; Yoshiaki Shibata; Zanaton Iksan; Shirley Tan – Prospects, 2024
This article analyzes Malaysian and Japanese educators' reactions to a mathematics lesson observed by a subset of researchers. The main aims are to reveal the cultural scripts about mathematical learning that are held by, but often invisible to, members of a culture; and to address educators' conceptions of teaching mathematics across cultures.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Differences
Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Download full textNational Center on Education and the Economy, 2024
The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) looks across the world for innovative and successful policies and practices, grounded in research and supported by the wisdom of practice, to share with partners. In response to concerns about student performance in mathematics, particularly following the precipitous drop in test scores…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Course Content
Wang, Chongyang; Shinno, Yusuke; Xu, Binyan; Miyakawa, Takeshi – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to advance understading of teachers' and researchers' work, in particular its cultural specificities, from a resource perspective by exploring the issues and challenges faced during the translation of a theoretical framework, the Documentational Approach to Didactics (DAD), from Western (English and French) to East Asian…
Descriptors: French, English (Second Language), Chinese, Japanese
Lassila, Erkki; Hyry-Beihammer, Eeva Kaisa; Kizkapan, Oktay; Rocena, Angela; Sumida, Manabu – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2023
This research examines student teachers' thinking about teaching gifted students in an inclusive classroom context. Grounded in a narrative paradigm, we analyzed narratives from student teachers in Finland, Austria, Turkey, the Philippines, and Japan to identify solutions that they imagined in response to gifted students' needs in an inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted
Takayama, Keita – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2022
This paper begins by revisiting my earlier critical review of the international scholarship on Japanese schooling (Takayama, 2011). In this work, I critiqued three books on Japanese schooling, by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi (2001), Nancy Sato (2004), and Peter Cave (2007), along with other English-language scholarships on Japanese education. Drawing on a…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, International Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Asami-Johansson, Yukiko; Attorps, Iiris; Winsløw, Carl – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
The aim of this paper is to investigate and compare lessons given in primary school teacher education in Japan, Finland and Sweden. We analyse one lesson from each country and compare them using a common framework. Chevallard's anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD) is used to frame this analysis and in particular to model teacher educators'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Harumi, Seiko – TESOL Journal, 2023
This article explores the use of conversation analysis (CA)-informed speaking task design to develop second language (L2) learners' interactional repertoires in L2 classrooms. The study draws on the voices of teachers and Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) who encountered difficulties or dilemmas in L2 interaction due to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Skelcher, Shannon – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2017
The use of flipped learning as a pedagogical approach has increased in the 21st century. While there is an existing survey of literature regarding the development in American educational institutions--and fewer in an Asian context--there are some unique cultural considerations that may need to be examined regarding flipped learning's adoption and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
Rucynski, John, Jr.; Prichard, Caleb – English Teaching Forum, 2021
From a cultural perspective, humor may be a universal feature of all cultures, but what is considered funny varies greatly from culture to culture. In this article, the authors demonstrate the importance of understanding kinds of humor that differ across cultures and offer clear suggestions for teaching three kinds--verbal irony, memes, and…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
York, James – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This article introduces an empirical study of "Connected Learning" in a Japanese EFL classroom context, instantiated through the Bridging Activities pedagogical framework. Students considered their interests, made groups, and joined Reddit communities. Self-selected texts were then analyzed with rigorous teacher mediation. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Educational Practices, Learning Processes
Al Shabibi Al Shabibi; Heikki Silvennoinen – Athens Journal of Education, 2018
On international comparisons, the development of Oman's education system in terms of the increase in educational enrolment rates and in the level of teacher qualifications has been remarkably rapid. Almost 100% access to basic education has been achieved, and almost all students progress onto post-basic education. A report from the World Bank in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Barriers, Low Achievement
Lowe, Robert J. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Critical English language teaching (ELT) research is expanding in scope, covering topics such as linguistic imperialism, native-speakerism, and the intersections between issues of race, class, and gender. With this expansion comes a requirement for robust and rigorous methods of data collection and analysis for researchers to employ. This article…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Linda Oshita – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This reflective essay is written based on the author's experience as a study abroad program visiting resident director in Japan during the 2019-2020 academic year. As the resident director, the author served as the front line of communication and support for the international students on this program during an unprecedented crisis that impacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, COVID-19, Pandemics
Liu, Qianxiu; Allard, Bradley; Lo, Patrick; Zhou, Qingshan; Jiany, Tianji; Itsumura, Hiroshi – College & Research Libraries, 2019
This study is based on the belief that inquiry-based learning should be made an integral part of any student's learning, especially at university level. To find out the students' perceptions toward library user education, 426 questionnaire surveys have been collected from the Peking University (PKU), China and the University of Tsukuba (UT),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Users (Information), College Students, Cultural Differences
