Tokkatsu : the Japanese educational model of holistic education / edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Hiroshi Sugita, Kanako N. Kusanagi, Fumiko Takahashi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko Kato, editor.

Sugita, Hiroshi, 1957- editor.

Kusanagi, Kanako, editor.

Takahashi, Fumiko, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holistic education--Japan.

Holistic education.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xv, 327 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2020]

Summary:

"Though there has been much discussion on the academic aspects of Japanese education abroad (e.g., high scores on international tests, lesson study), there has been little information on the non-academic aspects of Japanese schooling. The non-academic aspect is called Tokkatsu (tokubetsu katsudo). Compared to math and reading, it does not occur during a certain hour of the day, and rather extends throughout the day, and to hours outside of the regular classrooms -- such as school excursions. It includes classroom activities such as classroom discussions, morning and afternoon meetings that take place daily, cleaning and serving lunch, school events such as sports day, school excursions, student councils, and club activities. Such activities occur every single day, throughout one's school years, from elementary school (actually, even kindergarten) to high school. They are, however, bound together by the common goals of the Tokkatsu framework. This book is the foremost attempt to address a gap in English literature on Tokkatsu"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The tokkatsu framework: the Japanese model of holistic education / Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

The essentials of tokkatsu (1) / Hiroshi Sugita

Tokkatsu for cultivating pupils/students' talents and abilities necessary to live in a future society (interview with Ms. Kyoko Abe, curriculum specialist for tokkatsu, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) / interviewer: Shino Takatsu

Safety and disaster prevention education as education for life / Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Safety education in a global age: the case of a public night junior high school in Japan / Maiko Sumino

Column Tokkatsu as the core of career education / Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Classroom activities on cleaning and lunch: tokkatsu series DVD / Fumiko Takahashi & Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Tokkatsu-like activities in Japanese corporations (interview with Keiichi Hamano, CEO of Hamano Products Co., Ltd. and Mr. Hidesaburo Kagiyama, founder of Yellow Hat Ltd.) / Shino Takatsu

Implications of comparing school cleaning across educational contexts: interpretation and practice in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore / Kanako N. Kusanagi, Fumiko Takahashi, Chun-Yi Tan, and Ryoko Tsuneyoshi with appreciation to Jiaheng Zhou

Tokkatsu group stayovers as education for life? / Kazuhiko Nambu, Wataru Ino, Shino Takatsu, and Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Seitokai: student committee of secondary schools in Japan / Yutaka Ochi

Japanese essay writing for life education: the case of C Secondary School / Yutaka Ochi & Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Teacher learning and the Kenkyukai: the Japanese model of collaborative teacher research / Kazuhiko Nambu

"Group-making" Matsubara style / Kokichi Shimizu

Tokkatsu reform: learning better together / Kazuaki Iwabuchi, Aiko Komoto, & Hiromi Shimizu

Rebuilding the community through education: the case of Futaba Future School in Fukushima / Maiko Sumino

Tokkatsu plus in Egypt: extending the tokkatsu concept / Shinichiro Tanaka

Lesson study in Singapore / Edmund Lim

Transformation of lesson study in Indonesia: from government-assisted projects to professional learning communities / Kanako N. Kusanagi

Education reforms in the National Institute of Technology (kosen) / Hidenori Isami

Human-centered innovation at I. School is the key to educate students for creating new values in new ways (interview with Hideyuki Horii, executive director of I. School, professor emeritus of civil engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo) / interviewer: Shino Takatsu

Concluding remarks / Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789811214172

9789813232662

9813232668

OCLC:

1100447602

Publisher Number:

99984226437