JAPANESE GOVERMENT POLICICIES IN EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND CULTURE 1994
PART I New Directions in School Education
Section 1. The Status of School Education
Section 1. Basic Thinking Behind the Five-Day School Week
Section 1. Greater Emphasis on Individuality and Diversity in Upper Secondary Education
Section 3. Improvement of Systems of Selecting Entrants to Upper Secondary Schools
Section 1. Trends and Issues in Career Guidance in Lower Secondary Schools
Section 2. Ending Dependence on Commercially Produced Tests
PART II Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 1. Integrated Implementation of Educational Policies
Section 1. Educational Policies to Meet the Needs of a New Era
Section 2. Promotion of Educational Reform
Section 3. Enhancement of Educational Policies at the Regional Level
Chapter 2. Preparing for a Lifelong Learning Society
Section 2. Developing a Framework for Promoting Lifelong Learning
Section 3. Stimulating Demand for Learning and Providing Learning Opportunities
Section 4. Evaluating Learning Achievements
Section 1. Fostering Richness of Spirit
Section 2. Student Guidance Based on Respect for the Individual
Section 3. Education that Teaches Respect for the Environment and Education Designed to Increase Interest in and Understanding of Nature and Foster Scientific Perception and Thinking
Section 4. Physical Education and Health Education
Section 5. Kindergarten Education Based on Respect for Individual Children
Section 6. Special Consideration for Children with Physical and Mental Disabilities
Section 7. Promotion of Dowa Education
Section 8. Developing Better Textbooks
Section 10. Providing High-Caliber Teachers
Section 11. Developing Spacious and Pleasant School Facilities and Attractive Teaching Materials
Chapter 4. Toward Diversified Development of Higher Education
Section 1. Ongoing Reform of Higher Education
Section 2. Improvement of University Entrant Selection
Section 3. Toward Sophisticated, Individualized, and Revitalized Higher Education
Section 4. Support for Human-Resource Development Through Student Aid Programs
Chapter 5. Promotion of Private Schools
Section 2. Measures to Promote Private Schools
Chapter 6. Promoting Scientific Research
Section 2. Supporting Scientific Research Through Research Funds and Facility Improvement
Section 4. The Role of Research Institutions in Promoting Scientific Research
Section 5. Developing Information and Resources Relating to Scientific Research
Section 8. Promoting International Scientific Exchange in Which Japan Takes the Initiative
Chapter 7. New Horizons in Social Education
Section 2. Promotion of Learning Activities for Adults and the Elderly
Section 3. Improvement of Youth Education
Section 4. Enhancement of Home Education
Section 5. Promotion of Learning and Social Participation for Women
Section 6. Enhancement of Conditions for Social Education
Section 7. Utilization of Educational Media
Chapter 8. Promoting Sports
Section 1. Approaches to Promoting Sports
Section 3. Promoting Competitive Sports
Chapter 9. Toward a Culture-Communicating Society
Section 1. Culture Promotion Measures
Section 2. Raising the Standard of Artistic Creation
Section 3. Promoting Local Arts and Culture
Section 4. Japanese Language Policy, Copyright Policy, and Administration of Religious Corporations
Section 5. Protecting and Utilizing Cultural Properties
Section 6. National Cultural Facilities
Chapter 10. Internationalization of Education, Culture, and Sports
Section 2. Development of Japanese Citizens Living in the International Community
Section 3. International Exchange and Cooperation in Education, Culture, and Sports
Section 4. Student Exchange Aimed at the Twenty-first Century
Section 5. Global Expansion of Japanese Language Education
Section 6 Improving Education for Japanese Children Overseas and Children Returning from Overseas
Chapter 11. The Shift to an Information-Oriented Society: Implications for Education, Science, Culture, and Sports
Section 1. Responses of Educational Administration to the Shift to an Information-Oriented Society
Section 2. Developing Human Resources to Cope with the Shift to an Information-Oriented Society
Section 3. Utilizing and Developing New Information Media
Section 4. Promoting the Supply of Lifelong Learning Information and Scientific Research Information and Developing Information Networks
Section 5. Developing a Copyright Policy for the Shift to an Information-Oriented Society
Chapter 12. Educational Facilities for the Twenty-first Century
Section 1. Developing Educational Facilities for a New Era
Section 2. Developing School Facilities with Distinctive Characteristics
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