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CHAPTER 5 EDUCATIONAL REFORMS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND THE FUTURE EDUCATION IN JAPAN
3 Future Education in Japan
(1) Improvement of School Curriculums


In Japan, where quantitative development of education has been realized to a high degree, at least in elementary and secondary schools, further efforts should be made as a next step to improve the quality of education as well as to assure the quantitative adequacy of education. One of the important factors determining the quality of education is the curriculum. It is of vital importance that school curriculums should be constituted both to meet the needs of society and those of individual students, and that courses of study be improved and educational facilities and teaching materials been enriched. If curriculums won't meet the changing needs of society, they can't meet the expectation of society, and if they are not adapted to the mental and physical development of students, they don't work well for effective learning. Although the curriculums for elementary and secondary schools have been revised since 1958, the aims of the revision such as improvement of basic learning and education according to the abilities and aptitudes of individual students, are not always fully attained. Besides, in comparison with other countries, it has been pointed out that the proportion of time devoted to the fundamental subjects, like Japanese language and mathematics, in the composition of curriculums, is rather small, and improvement of teaching methods is not strongly promoted. In this rapidly changing society, efforts should be made to produce satisfactory results of education by coming at a true knowledge of teaching contents at school as well as by the improvement of teachers' qualifications, teaching metlaods,teaching materials, etc.


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