The Influence of Early Education on Japanese University Students' Performance

Description: Commercially available supplementary early-educational materials (SEM) for children aged 6-9 can give a useful insight into the broad pedagogical goals of a society's educational system. This presentation will deal with two separate topics related to the content and approach of these materials. The first - mostly of interest to parents - is the potential role of British and American supplementary workbooks and educational magazines in helping foster biliteracy in bicultural children brought up in the mainstream Japanese educational system. The second - perhaps of interest to higher education teachers - is the extent to which specific differences in the content and goals of SEM from Japan and English speaking countries can reveal larger and more general pedagogical differences and approaches to learning. These differences, it is argued, may have considerable carry-over effect into higher education, resulting in a specific set of gaps in the general knowledge and cognitive skills of many Japanese university students.
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