scholarly journals New Spirituality in Japan and Its Place in the Teaching of Moral Education

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Japanese Education ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Vast Range

This paper begins by examining so-called “spirituality movements and/or culture” in Japanese society today. It then focuses on research into spirituality as it relates to Japanese education, and specifically moral education, where, for example, our connectedness to the sublime and lofty is one of the four themes of the new moral education classes introduced into Japanese elementary schools in 2018. It is far from easy, however, to teach such a subject, since Japanese moral education is required to keep its distance from popular spirituality as well as from the institutionalized spirituality of organized religions. Furthermore, the conventional knowledge that underpins modern Japanese moral education struggles to deal with spirituality and the vast range of human existence, including our search for the purpose and significance of life. Accordingly, this paper will examine current work on such issues and attempt to outline the future role that scientific and academic approaches to religion and spirituality might play in moral education in Japan, especially from the viewpoint of human connectedness to nature and the sublime.

scholarly journals Compiling Life-Oriented Moral Education Textbooks for Elementary Schools in China: The Mimetic Approach in Morality and Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 209653112098296
Author(s):  
Yan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Novel Approach

Purpose: This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China, specifically focusing on Morality and Law. Design/Approach/Methods: Adopting Aristotle’s Poetics as its theoretical perspective, this study illustrates and analyzes the mimetic approach used in compiling the life-oriented moral education textbook, Morality and Law. Findings: The mimetic approach involves imitating children's real activities, thoughts, and feelings in textbooks. The mimetic approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks comprises three strategies: constructing children's life events as building blocks for textbook compilation, designing an intricate textual device exposing the wholeness of children's life actions, and designing inward learning activities leading to children's inner worlds. Originality/Value: From the perspective of Aristotle's Poetics, the approach to compilation in Morality and Law can be defined as mimetic. And the compilation activity in the life-oriented moral education textbook also can be described as a processes of mimesis. So this article presents a new approach to compile moral education textbooks, and  an innovative way to understand the nature of one compiling activity.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN PENGKARYAAN KEMBALI PEKERJA SENIOR JEPANG PASCA PENSIUN (SUDUT PANDANG PERUSAHAAN MANUFAKTUR)

IZUMI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Dewi Saraswati Sakariah
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Society Today

This study discusses about the phenomenon of the re-employed senior workers after retirement in Japan’s manufacturing companies. Japan is a country with the fastest aging population in the world that has many problems in itspopulation demographic.Meanwhile, the government launched intensifying efforts to make Japan rises from its economic recession since the 1990s.One of the efforts is call on each of the people who is still able to work to contribute to the employment sector in order to achieve economic growth strategy.One of the encouraged groups isthe post-retirementsenior workers in Japan’s manufacturing companies.The call on was well received while a number of companies were adopting this system with several different reasonsnamely life expectancy increases, the government calls to the people, the needs of the company's senior workers for productivity and skill transfering, the salary and the company's view of the young workers. This research will be interpreted by sosial changes perspective in society from Anthony Giidens. This study concludes that the phenomenon of the re-employed senior workers after retirement is the result of social changes that has occurred in Japanese society today.

Japanese Society Today.

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Yoko Tokarz ◽  
Tadashi Fukutake
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
Society Today

Japanese Society Today

1976 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Richard H. Brown ◽  
Tadashi Fukutake
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
Society Today

scholarly journals Internalisasi pendidikan moral pada perguruan tinggi di Jepang

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Sutrisno Sutrisno
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk Mengetahui konsep pembelajaran pendidikan moral di perguruan tinggi di Jepang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif. Penelitian dilaksanakan di Tokyo Gakugei University. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif.  Metode pengumpulan data diperoleh dengan cara observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi.  Hasil penelitian ini menjelaskan bahwa Pendidikan moral pada perguruan tinggi di Jepang bertujuan untuk membangun karakter warga negara muda untuk berpikir bagaimana caranya hidup dan bertindak atas dasar penilaian otonom dan hidup sebagai orang yang proaktif bersama dengan orang lain. Pendidikan moral menjadi alat dan media untuk mentrasformasikan nilai-nilai dasar filosofis masyarakat Jepang. Pendidikan moral dapat tercermin pada karakter keseharian masyarakat Jepang yang memiliki etos dan semangat kerja tinggi dalam menjalankan setiap profesinya-----This study aims to determine the concept of learning moral education in universities in Japan. This research is a qualitative research. The study was conducted at Tokyo Gakugei University. The research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. Data collection methods obtained by observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this study explain that moral education at universities in Japan aims to build the character of young citizens to think how to live and act on the basis of autonomous judgment and life as people who are proactive together with others. Moral education is a tool and media for transforming the basic philosophical values of Japanese society. Moral education can be reflected in the daily character of Japanese people who have high ethos and work spirit in carrying out every profession

The Accepted Outsider: A New Interpretation of The Folktale of Momotaro

IZUMI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-303
Author(s):  
Robi Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Almost All

Momotaro is one of the most widely heard folktales in Japanese society, even becoming a compulsory material taught in all elementary schools in Japan. Folktale is something that reflects the structure of thinking of society. Therefore, the folktale of Momotaro was examined to reveal the thinking structure covered in the story. The thought is the view of Japanese society towards people outside their community. This view in Japanese culture is very important. Surprisingly, until now there has been no researcher who relates this folktale to this view. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to fill this void, by presenting a new interpretation different from the previous studies. This research is cultural research, not literary research. Almost all cultural research on Momotaro cannot be separated from the use of a historical approach. What distinguishes it from previous research is the use of a non-historical approach. This study used Levi-Strauss’ structural approach. This approach is to look at the forms of structure or 'logic' used in the folktale of Momotaro, more specifically the logic about the meaning of outsiders for Japanese society.

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