ПРАКТИКА ФОРМУВАННЯ ЯПОНСЬКОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ В ЗАГАЛЬНООСВІТНІЙ ШКОЛІ

Abstract

The experience of Japan as a successful reformer in the field of schooling, is certainly beneficial to Ukraine in the light of well-regulated value based schooling. The law, contents of moral education, and its resourcefulness is a sustainable basis that enables Japanese professionals to unify the “school value climate” at national level. The peculiarity of Japanese schooling is infused into curriculum special activity, integrated studies, and moral education as a discipline. The latter one coordinates both curricular and extracurricular activities. The teaching approach to studentsʼ engagement and their socio-emotional development, the parents and community support of school values sufficiently add to school efficiency in Japan. For Ukraine that has accumulated a number of strategies, concepts, and programs on value education since 1991 (in particular, “National value education program for children and young adolescents”), the determination of a single value based program, and consequently, the contents of value education remain unclear. The same goes about resourcefulness and overall quality of value based schooling which varies from school to school. The current reform “Nova Ukrainska shkola” (New Ukrainian school) targets its changes at the competence-based education, student-oriented pedagogy, pedagogy of partnership, school autonomy, equity and just funding. Among the priority of tasks the main one is a renewed education content on values and Ukrainian identity formation. Taking into account the common elements in Japanese and Ukrainian schooling, the Japanese relevant experience on wholesome, practice based education, this study attemps to explore the connection between Japanese traits and the ways they are shaped in terms of the Ukrainian Pedagogics, to explore the approaches and practices that might be appropriate in Ukrainian settings. Key words: secondary school, schooling, value education, moral education, value education contents.