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Luis Crouch – Prospects, 2024
This article, which is related to a longer piece to be published in 2023, starts from the point of view that, despite some issues, there may be borrowable ideas in how South Korea and Japan developed their education systems, especially at the outset of their modern periods of educational development. However, in the popular press, and even among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Educational Practices, Educational Development
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Yonezawa, Akiyoshi; Hoshino, Akinari; Shimauchi, Sae – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The authors analyze the profile and dynamism of the Japanese higher education system in comparison with the higher education systems of other East Asian countries, with special reference to East-West hybrid patterns. The authors reflect on the development and transformation of Japanese higher education, especially its interaction with neighboring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Characteristics, Profiles, Higher Education
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Yamato, Yoko; Zhang, Wei – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
Private supplementary tutoring became a widespread phenomenon in Japan during the 1960s. Since then, institutions providing tutoring known as "juku" have provided a wide range of services to supplement mainstream education. During decades of development, the shapes and functions of "juku" have changed in response to changes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, After School Education
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Ide, Kanako – Ethics and Education, 2015
This article is an attempt to develop the idea of peace education for adults through the assumption that, compared to peace education for children, educational approaches for adults are as yet undeveloped. This article also assumes that the progress of educational approaches for adults is necessary to the further development of peace education for…
Descriptors: Peace, Adult Education, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Adam, Robert – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Over the years attempts have been made to standardize sign languages. This form of language planning has been tackled by a variety of agents, most notably teachers of Deaf students, social workers, government agencies, and occasionally groups of Deaf people themselves. Their efforts have most often involved the development of sign language books…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Academic Standards, Sign Language, Models
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Arimoto, Akira – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
From a framework of this study, modern society may be explained by a paradigm transformation from ascription to achievement and also from particularism to universalism. According to this hypothesis, Japanese university society has not developed successfully for more than the closed society to the opened society. This paper intends to deal with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Productivity, Social Stratification
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Yonezawa, Akiyoshi; Shimmi, Yukiko – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
In order to strengthen their international presence, universities pursuing a world-class status are striving to increase their internationalization. Internationalization implies a transformation of university governance, especially for universities in a non-English-speaking system such as Japan's. This paper examines the challenges of…
Descriptors: Governance, College Administration, Educational Policy, Barriers
OECD Publishing, 2018
Taking the students' perspective, Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2017) with various education policies adopted…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
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Saito, Eisuke – Professional Development in Education, 2012
In recent research, it has been argued that effective professional learning would continue over the long term and is best suited for a school community that promotes learning. This requires an examination of the teachers on a daily basis. In order to develop such a community, it becomes increasingly important for teachers to mutually observe and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Lesson Plans, Educational Practices
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2016, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 1-3 July, 2016. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2016, 1-4 July. The e-Learning (EL) 2016 conference aims…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), Electronic Learning, Computer Science Education
Kiuchi, Yoichi – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2007
Since the Meiji Restoration (1868), Japan's educational studies first began by receiving theories of practical education from the UK and U. S. Later, together with the political trends around 1890, there began a trend towards receipt of German educational studies. Along with the spread of elementary education, there were experiments with building…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Ideology, Educational Practices
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Allen, G. C. – Oxford Review of Education, 1978
Examines changes in the educational system of Japan from 1868-1912 as a result of changes in attitudes toward science, technology, and professional and vocational training. Widespread fervor for utilitarian education during this period played a large part in Japan's commercial and industrial modernization. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Asian History, Comparative Education, Educational Development, Educational History
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1991
For the past decade there has been a surge of international interest in Japanese education in the wake of its economic and technological successes. This paper discusses eight distinctive features of Japanese education, identifying their advantages and disadvantages and how they have been brought about. These eight features of Japanese schooling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Development, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Fujitani, Satoru; Bhattacharya, Madhumita; Akahori, Kanji – Educational Technology, 2003
Addresses issues related to the implementation of information and communications technology (ICT) in education and online learning with particular reference to Japan. Presents an integrated model for the introduction of ICT at all levels of education that suggests ways of bridging the gap between research and development and actual educational…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Development
Wong, Edwin K. P.; Ngai, Sze Wan Emily; Lo, King Shuen – New Horizons in Education, 2006
Background: The Project Yi Jin (PYJ), an alternative pathway for secondary school leavers and adults to further their education, has been receiving full support from the government, the Federation for Continuing Education in Tertiary Institutions (FCE) in Hong Kong and the public. Graduates of PYJ have the equivalent academic status of their…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction
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