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The Road Not Taken: Mori Arinori's Conception of Ethics ("Rinri") Education
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Zibo Lin; Hanyang Lu – History of Education, 2025
As the ideological pillar of modern Japan's imperial system, the Imperial Rescript on Education was profoundly imprinted on Japan's modern education. But, in fact, multiple alternative proposals for developing modern education were put forth in the mid-Meiji period. One such proposal was the ethics ("rinri") education promoted by the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Moral Values
In Search of a Moral Standard: Debates over Ethics Education and Religion in Meiji Japan
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Lin, Zibo; Lu, Hanyang – History of Education, 2020
In the mid-Meiji period, the leading scholar Kato Hiroyuki proposed relying on religion in moral education as he was dissatisfied with the Ministry of Education's inclination towards Western ethics in their reform. Triggered by Kato's proposal, there arose an intense debate over the 'standard' for moral education in the educational circles. The…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Foreign Countries, Ethics
Children's Everyday Experience as a Focus of Moral Education
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Iwasa, Nobumichi – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Two influential tragic incidents in 2011 are discussed in connection with the cultivation of morality in Japan. One is the suicide of a junior high school student due to bullying in his school--a scandal which eventually led to the country's redefinition of the status of moral education in the school curriculum. The other is the huge earthquake…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Suicide, Junior High School Students
Design, Development, and Usability of a Virtual Environment on Moral, Social, and Emotional Leaning
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Paracha, Samiullah; Hall, Lynne; Clawson, Kathy; Mitsche, Nicole – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2020
Virtual environments have the potential to be an important teaching tool for emotionally sensitive issues capable of producing a sense of presence, perspective-taking and introspection in users in a risk-free, rapid feedback experience. In designing such experiences, it is essential that users are regularly engaged in a collaborative design…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Emotional Development, Social Development, Empathy
Nurturing Young Children's Moral Development through Literature in Japan and the USA
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Izumi-Taylor, Satomi; Scott, Jerrie C. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the views of American and Japanese early childhood teachers regarding the nurturing of young children's moral development using literature. The data consisted of responses to a questionnaire and written explanations of 36 American and 36 Japanese teachers. By comparing responses of the two groups, it was…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Moral Development
Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice, and Contemporary Issues
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Evertson, Carolyn M., Ed.; Weinstein, Carol S., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Classroom management is a topic of enduring concern for teachers, administrators, and the public. It consistently ranks as the first or second most serious educational problem in the eyes of the general public, and beginning teachers consistently rank it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Management problems continue…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Classroom Communication, Critical Theory