Civic Education in Japanese School
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This paper focused on civic education policies, patterns, and its contributory factors in Japanese school. Documentary research was integrated as the main method for this study. The results showed that Japanese civic schooling aims to produce a citizen who has abilities to shape a peaceful and democratic society in Japan. The Japanese civic education policy is grounded on “Zest for Life” ideal, which aims to advance students’ academic prowess, humanitarian, and healthiness. This study also found two civic educating patterns: intensive and integrated civic learning in compulsory education, and individualistic civic education in high school. Four contributory contexts to its civic schooling are curriculum-based learning, aimed-characteristics of Japanese citizenship schooling, integrated extra-curriculum activities, social education activities in communities, and collectivistic norm reproduction.
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เนื้อหาและข้อมูลที่ตีพิมพ์ลงในวารสารมนุษย์กับสังคม ถือเป็นข้อคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบโดยตรงของผู้เขียนซึ่งกองบรรณาธิการวารสารไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วยหรือร่วมรับผิดชอบใดๆ
บทความ ข้อมูล เนื้อหา รูปภาพ ฯลฯ ที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารมนุษย์กับสังคม ถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสาร หากบุคคลหรือหน่วยงานใดต้องการนำทั้งหมดหรือส่วนหนึ่งส่วนใดไปเผยแพร่ต่อต้องอ้างอิงวาสาร
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