Happy new year, everyone!
I hope we all had a wonderful time during this winter holiday, and look forward to seeing you in class.
During this holiday, I often went to my part time job which is working as a cram school teacher. I have been working there since April, but this season is extremely important for third year students who are taking entrance examinations for high schools or university. So, in this final blog, I would like to introduce one article which I read about in news paper, and attracted my attention.
The article is about introducing a compulsory Japanese history class to high school in Japan. Currently, students must take a world history class, and are allowed to select one from geograohy or Japanese history. As a result, Japanese history comes to be slighted in high school. In reserch of the Ministry of education, 30~40% of students graduated from high school withiout studying Japanese history, however, as the world has been globlalized, the Ministry of education realized the need of bring up people who have a enough understanding of our own culture. Japanese hisory is going to be a compulsory subject in 2019 at the earliest.
I agree with this upcoming revision. I mainly studied world history in high school. Furthermore, I went away from Japan to study English for a year, so I have experienced many times when I realized my lack of knowledge of Japanese history in Gakushuin university. I think having an appropriate knowledge of own history can be a huge weapon in a good way, especially when we communicate with people from other countries as it will help us to share accurate information, and try to understand each other's history. It will also raise our interest in our own country.
This is just my opinion, but I would like to know if you agree with this change or not.
Here is the article written in Japanese. It may be helpful for better understang of this topic.
I didn't know the revision. It is interesting topic for me.
ReplyDeleteI also think that it is important for students to study Japanese history enough before world history.
It seems that learning their county's history is inevitable for us in this globalized world.
However, students learn Japanese history in junior high school, so it is not a big problem not to study it in high school, I think.
Minami
Hi, this is Ms. MacGregor. How will the revision affect students' class load and overall workload? Will any other subject be dropped from their course of study to make room for world history? I strongly agree that world history should be compulsory, and it should be able to fit in to the curriculum without any compromises.
ReplyDeleteHello. This is Koichi.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this plan because as the ministry mentions, knowing own culture is really important for us.
Speaking of entrance exams, my brother will take it this year, but he took '凶' in omikuji this year.
Anyway, I hope this year will be a good one for you!!!