(DOWNLOAD) "Current Challenges of Kindergarten (Yochien) Education in Japan: Toward Balancing Children's Autonomy and Teachers' Intention." by Childhood Education * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Current Challenges of Kindergarten (Yochien) Education in Japan: Toward Balancing Children's Autonomy and Teachers' Intention.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 15, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 205 KB
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"Japanese students are falling lower on the international ladder of academic ability." (Asahi Shinbun Newspaper, December 12, 2004). Many education critics, teachers, and parents have lamented the recent poor achievement scores of Japanese school-age children, and have sought the reasons for the decline. Some critics, including the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, and Science and Technology, blame the practice known as yutori-kyoiku (literally translated as "relaxed-education"), initiated in 2002, which cut the school week from six days to five days and slashed curriculum content by 30 percent. They claim these changes led children to lose their motivation and discipline for school work. They strongly recommend that the Japanese school curriculum return to teaching basic education contents rigorously and revert to a six-days-a-week school schedule.