The taught curriculum of moral education at Japanese elementary school

The role of classtime in the broad curriculum

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12953181
AutoresSam Bamkin (0000-0002-9635-0819, The University of Tokyo, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume32
Fascículo2
Páginas218-239
Data de publicação2020-05-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary Japan (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1869-2729 • E-ISSN: 1869-2737
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/18692729.2020.1747780
OpenAlexW3027133644
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas28

The school curriculum in Japan provides for moral education. Teachers’ educational practice is influenced by the written curriculum, and must be organised around its audited requirements. However, it may diverge from aspects of what the curriculum prescribes. Though previous studies have explored pedagogic beliefs and spontaneous practices, few have considered pedagogic planning in the context of the written curriculum. Drawing on classroom observations and interviews with teachers and educators, this study seeks to understand the taught curriculum of moral education in Japan: how it is structured “on the ground” and how schools and teachers plan moral education. Moral education classtime (moral education in the narrow sense) emerges as a site for reflection and pre-learning which supports the learning of prosocial behaviour (moral education in the broad sense), which is planned primarily through other educational activities. Understanding these intra-curricula relations addresses long-standing questions in the study of Japanese education. It also holds significance for the development of theory in pedagogy for moral education, suggesting new directions for moral education in intra-curricular connection and planning incidental learning

Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Curriculum development · Curriculum mapping · Curriculum theory · Emergent curriculum · Mathematics education · Moral development · Pedagogy · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Values and Moral Education