Curriculum Development of Open Education and the Necessity of Change in Teachers' Attitudes

NARITA Yukio

doi:10.18981/jscs.2.0_79

The aim of this paper is to tell you how to develop an open curriculum in elementary schools and in junior high schools and the necessity of change of teachers’ attitudes in developing an open curriculum. Recently we have a new course of study for junior high schools in Japan and we need to find a new way of evaluating “interest, willingness, and attitudes” in learning. These points are stressed, as well as, various types and processes of learning in open education. However, in Japan, many teachers are still reluctant in introducing open education.<br> Among the teachers we have tried to develop an open curriculum in an elementary school and a junior high school. One is Ogawa Elementary School, Aichi, and the other is Ueno Junior High School, Aichi. In Ogawa Elementary School we developed a new strategy of seven styles of learning for individual students, and in Ueno Junior High School we focused on developing four styles of student learning for individual creativity.<br> In order to develop an open curriculum and to change Japanese teachers’ attitudes to open education we need three means or ways to understand the students or an individual basis: (1) to adopt intra-individual evaluation, (2) to make a framework to observe and understand individual students, (3) to use students’ self-evaluations.

Curriculum Development of Open Education and the Necessity of Change in Teachers' Attitudes

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