This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their
own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in
Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although
educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
The goals of this study were to discover and compare the religious
and philosophical traditions which have shaped Japanese and American
cultures, and to make a case for interdisciplinary transcultural programs
of study in higher education. Specifically, the purposes of this
study were to: (1) describe and trace historically the...
Guided by the emerging interest in gender of siblings as one important
sociological component in American family studies, the major objective of this study
was to examine the effect of sex composition of siblings on women's levels of
educational attainment in the Japanese setting. The present study hypothesized
that the...
Undergraduate physical education major programs in
the United States and Japan were compared in terms of
reform during the period 1972-74 to 1988-90. Two kinds of
reform were studied: (1) change from single-track
professional preparation to multiple-track preparation and
(2) change from a nonacademic discipline-based program to
an entirely academic...