How Yutori Kyoiku Affected Japanese Students’ Learning Abilities

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1 周 潔穎（Jieying Zhou） ZHOU16@MARSHALL.EDU
How Yutori Kyoiku Affected Japanese Students’ Learning Abilities シュウ　ジェイン 周　潔穎（Jieying Zhou）

2 Keywords: ゆとり教育 (ゆとりきょういく) relaxed education
ゆとり世代 (ゆとりせだい) relaxed generation 詰め込み教育 (つめこみきょういく) cramming education 政策 (せいさく) policy 影響 (えいきょう) effect

3 Background OF Japanese Kyoiku
Tsumekomi Kyoiku Yutori kyoiku High stress levels Hard to keep concentrating for a long time. Emphasis on memorization meant that smart students lost a chance to attend good universities. . More holidays (reduced the six-day school week to five) More field trips (farms, museums) More elective classes & be able to choose majors in high schools

4 Why Exams are important in Japan?

5 Negative aspects of yutori kyoiku (1)
2000 2003 2006 1 Finland Korea 2 Canada 3 New Zealand Hong Kong 4 Australia 5 Ireland Liechtenstein 6 7 the UK 8 Japan Sweden 9 the Netherlands Poland 10 Austria 11 Belgium 12 Iceland Norway 13 Switzerland Estonia 14 France 15 the US Macao

6 Negative aspects of yutori kyoiku (2)
Basic intermediate Advanced Negative aspects of yutori kyoiku (2)

7 Conclusion 　Doraemon

8 Works Cited Head, Ellen. “Yutori Kyoiku and the Crisis of Motivation: Social Change and Japanese Educational Reform ” (2006): Web. Retrieved January , from < &host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no= &cp=>. Inoue Youjirou 井上洋市朗. “Daigaku shinsotsu sannen de sanwari ga yameru [souki taishouku hakusho] to gyappu iya kara omoukoto” 大学新卒3年で3割が辞める [早期退職白書] とギャップイヤーから思うことー[Why thirty percent of graduates quit in three years and the understanding of gap year]. Gyapu iya japan ギャップイヤージャパン, 2014. Nakajo Kiyomi 中條清美・Nishigaki Chikako 西垣知佳子・Hasegawa Shuji長谷川修治・Uchiyama Masao内山将夫. “Yutori Kyouiku jidai no koukou kyoukasho goi wo kangaeru – 1980 nendai to 2000 nendai no koukou eigo kyoukasho goi no hikaku bunseki kara no kousa”「ゆとり教育」時代の高校教科書語彙を考える －1980 年代と 2000 年代の高校英語教科書語彙 の比較分析からの考察－[The Impact of Yutori Kyouiku: A Comparative Study of 1988 and 2006 High School Textbook Vocabulary ]. Eigo Koupasu kenkyuu 英語コーパス研究 [the Study of English Compass], dai jugogo第 15 号 pp.57-79, 2008.

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