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Monday, October 23, 2017

電気通信大学 ASE & AWE II: Comparison & contrast in Japanese education・日本教育の比較対照

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How are you? Let's look at Japanese education (教育), and how it has changed over time

Activity

Look at these two pictures below. The first one is from a girl's high school sewing (裁縫) class in the 1930s. The second one is a recent, average 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 also the same - between these two pictures. 




Discussion & practice writing
When we're finished, discuss what you see in the pictures - what is different, but also what might be similar, about them. Make a chart comparing (比較して) and contrasting (対照して) what you note in the pictures. 

For AWE II, we can also start some 2-3 paragraph practice writing on comparing and contrasting these different pictures, and what we see and understand in them. This will be due in the next class.

Take care! See you next time!

Images: Top - by Douglas P Perkins - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17195256/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.

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