The Japanese Education System in Constrast to the American Education System
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The Japanese Education System in Contrast to the American Education System
Notes for Question Number One:
• Similarities:
+ “Children go to elementary school for 6 years …. junior high for 3 years...” p.116
+ both Japanese and American children go to school during similar hours, “8:30-3:00pm”. p.116
+ School is from Monday-Friday, but Japanese children sometimes have school on Saturday.
• Differences:
+ Only have a two-week vacation before the next “school year” starts.
+ Periods are 50 minutes long.
+ “Japanese students are in school about 240 days, compared to 180 days for most American students.” p.116
+ Academic Japanese curriculum( social studies, mathematics, science, health, art, and physical education.
+ Vocational Japanese curriculum( different text books, less time spent on studying, trains the students for the job they want that does not require college.
+ Students stay in one classroom all day.
+ “Japanese students take very difficult entrance exams to get into high school and college.” p.7a
+ Students attend juku, or cram schools which you may go to everyday for 3 hours to study for entrance exams.
+ “Some Japanese youths dislike the system…produces such stress that a desperate student will commit suicide rather than try and fail.” p.15
+ “February and March when exams are given is sometimes called juken jigoku, or ‘exam hell’.” p.119
+ “Students sometimes attend the same school for elementary, junior high and senior high school.” p.7
+ Students are responsible in the duty of cleaning classrooms, desks, et cetera; thus, there are no janitors in Japanese schools.
+ Teaching techniques are fairly different: the Japanese are more “drills and repetition” learners, rather than the American class participations and discussions.
+ Some Japanese classes involve “picking flowers, catching frogs and insects, raising rabbits, and...
Notes for Question Number One:
• Similarities:
+ “Children go to elementary school for 6 years …. junior high for 3 years...” p.116
+ both Japanese and American children go to school during similar hours, “8:30-3:00pm”. p.116
+ School is from Monday-Friday, but Japanese children sometimes have school on Saturday.
• Differences:
+ Only have a two-week vacation before the next “school year” starts.
+ Periods are 50 minutes long.
+ “Japanese students are in school about 240 days, compared to 180 days for most American students.” p.116
+ Academic Japanese curriculum( social studies, mathematics, science, health, art, and physical education.
+ Vocational Japanese curriculum( different text books, less time spent on studying, trains the students for the job they want that does not require college.
+ Students stay in one classroom all day.
+ “Japanese students take very difficult entrance exams to get into high school and college.” p.7a
+ Students attend juku, or cram schools which you may go to everyday for 3 hours to study for entrance exams.
+ “Some Japanese youths dislike the system…produces such stress that a desperate student will commit suicide rather than try and fail.” p.15
+ “February and March when exams are given is sometimes called juken jigoku, or ‘exam hell’.” p.119
+ “Students sometimes attend the same school for elementary, junior high and senior high school.” p.7
+ Students are responsible in the duty of cleaning classrooms, desks, et cetera; thus, there are no janitors in Japanese schools.
+ Teaching techniques are fairly different: the Japanese are more “drills and repetition” learners, rather than the American class participations and discussions.
+ Some Japanese classes involve “picking flowers, catching frogs and insects, raising rabbits, and...