東京理科大学 A英3: Comparison & contrast in Japanese education・日本教育の比較対照

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's deepen our understanding of writing in comparison and contrast (比較対照). We'll look at Japanese education, and how it has changed over time. 

The picture above is a scene from a terakoya - a local temple school that taught reading and writing to the children in the area of the temple. Terakoya were common during the Edo period.

Activity
Look at these two pictures. The first one is from a girl's high school sewing class in the 1930s. The second one is a recent typical high school class.

With a partner or a small group talk about, and make some notes on, differences you notice and things you feel have changed - or perhaps anything you feel is the same - between these two pictures.

Practice writing

When we're finished, we can start some 2-3 paragraph practice writing on comparing and contrasting these different pictures, and what we believe we see and understand in them. This will be due in the next class.

Take care! See you next time!

Images: Top - by signed: Issunshi Hanasato (一寸子 花里) - 日刊イトイ新聞, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3147851/Past girl’s high school classroom - by 能代実科高等女学校　Noshiro Practical Girls' High School - 能代実科高等女学校大正五年開校記念絵葉書　Postcard issued by the Noshiro Practical Girls' High School., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17018162/Contemporary high school classroom - screenshot taken from https://www.tofugu.com/japan/jet-program-self-intro-class/Original photograph by Dylan James at https://www.flickr.com/photos/organictokyo/33542326/in/photostream/Special thanks to Verity Lane at Tofugu.com. All rights reserved on original photograph to Dylan James. I do not own the rights to the image or the copyright holder(s). Dylan James photograph uploaded for classroom purposes only.