Schools of Thought : Teaching Children in America and Japan / Oregon Public Broadcasting.
This fascinating comparison between Japanese and American educational systems examines both the differences in goals between the two and the different ways in which they seek to achieve the same goal. With American producers photographing in Japan and Japanese producers photographing in the U.S., th...
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2007], ©1994.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (55 min.) : sound, color, digital file. |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
Contents:
- Japanese Students Focus on Exams and Good Schools (4:35)
- Japanese Education: Lecture and Memorization (5:02)
- Japan's White- and Blue-Collar Job Market (4:21)
- Alternative School for Non-Mainstream Japanese Students (2:39)
- Japanese Learning Strategy Design (2:38)
- Creativity as a Learning Strategy (3:27)
- American Junior High School Education (4:59)
- American Schools: Public Education and Job Corps (3:21)
- Street Violence and American Education (3:47)
- American Education for Single Parents (2:45)
- American Community College Education (4:23)
- American Schools: Teaching Basic Skills and Thinking Skills (2:51)
- Differences in American and Japanese Educational Systems (2:44)