The fall of moral education and the rise and decline of civics education and social studies in occupied and independent Japan
| Autor: | Harry Wray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Japan Forum. 12:15-41 |
| ISSN: | 1469-932X 0955-5803 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09555800050059441 |
| Popis: | This paper explores the process and controversies involved in the establishment and implementation of social studies in Occupied Japan. Its objectives are to demonstrate the limits to the Ministry of Education's willingness to reform moral education and to abandon civics education in favour of social studies; to elucidate the American rationale for preferring social studies to civics education; to argue that relatively shallow roots for social studies in Japan meant that a great deal of sophisticated 'nudging' was applied to introduce it; and to discuss reasons for the decline of social studies in Japan since the Occupation ended. Social studies has declined because conservatives argued that the progressive educators' emphasis on individualism, child-centered education, and creating active citizens through the methodology of discussion, debate, and problem-solving were alien to Japanese culture, lowered Japanese academic standards, slighted the integrity of history and geography as independent subjects, a... |
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