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Barker, Bruce O.; Christian, Duane – 1987
This study assessed the extent to which information about Japan is taught in secondary world history classrooms in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The sample used for this study was 475 world history teachers, randomly selected, in K-12 school districts scattered across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. A 21-item questionnaire was mailed to each of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
Bleiker, Chuck; Marra, Kim – 1993
This paper examines art, a discipline that bears striking parallels, and differences, in the way it is practiced and valued in the United States and Japan. In Japan, art is a valued part of the elementary curriculum warranting as much time as science and social studies. In the United States, art is generally thought of as something extra to do if…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Products, Childrens Art
Yoo, Yushin – 1987
The educational systems and requirements of Japan and Kentucky are compared in seven different areas. The first area compares total instruction days and illustrates the differences with a chart. Kentucky requires 175 days of instruction while Japan requires 240 days. Because of this Japanese students spend 150 to 300 more hours per year in school…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Year, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement
Becker, Jerry P., Ed. – 1992
In 1986 the United States (U.S.)-Japan Seminar on Mathematical Problem Solving convened to compare the state of problem solving in the classroom and in research in the two countries. The data and results given in this paper are the results of research conducted in the United States in response to the 1986 seminar. The U.S. and Japanese research…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Antonoplos, Daniel P. – 1985
National concern over the serious decline and poor performance of United States students in mathematics and science is reflected in this paper which discusses and compares performances and behavioral characteristics of Japanese students with their United States counterparts and, in some instances, with students from Sweden, Australia, England,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Rice, Michael – 1985
More than 40 leaders from business, government, and academia gathered for a 2-day symposium to focus on the social impact of new communications and information technologies and the extent to which the ways they are being used is decided as a matter of deliberate human choice, and how much by the influence of biased capabilities inherent in the…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Information Science, International Cooperation
Stevenson, Harold W. – 1985
A two part examination of the evidence concerning one possible basis for the poor mathematical performance of United States students, the content of the textbooks used in their classes, is presented. The results of a detailed analysis of Japanese and U.S. mathematics textbooks for grades 1 through 12 are reported. Two international studies (1964…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
Jain, Sushil – 1989
When Japan was occupied by the Allied Occupation Forces after the conclusion of World War II, the country was told to adopt a new democratic educational system styled after the U.S. system of education. The Japanese fitted the new system to suit their requirements and environment. In the following years the system was so perfected that it became…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Educational Development
Leestma, Robert; Bennett, William J.; And Others – 1987
Based on 2 years of research, this comprehensive report of education in Japan is matched by a simultaneously-released counterpart Japanese study of education in the United States. Impressive accomplishments of the Japanese system are described. For example, nearly everyone completes a rigorous core curriculum during 9 compulsory years of…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Comparative Education, Education, Educational Change
Trueba, Henry T., Ed.; Delgado-Gaitan, Concha, Ed. – 1988
Over the last 30 years, educational anthropologists have been exploring the organizational structure of schools and their relationship to society in order to shed light on the complex processes of acquisition, organization, and transmission of cultural knowledge. This volume covers the need to provide a field-based, well-documented cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture Conflict, Educational Anthropology