Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; 1 Introduction; PART 1 Curriculum; 2 Historical overview of curriculum organisation: National control over curriculum vs. school-based curriculum development; 3 The long debate between child-centred curriculum and discipline-centred curriculum; 4 Theories based on models of academic achievement and competency; PART 2 Instruction; 5 Historical overview of lesson study; 6 Practices of leading educators: Yoshio Toi, Kihaku Saito, Kazuaki Shoji and Yasutaro Tamada; 7 Various methods for organizing creative whole-class teaching
PART 3 Assessment8 Historical overview of assessment in post-war Japan; 9 Portfolio assessment in the period for integrated study; 10 Performance assessment in subject teaching; 11 Conclusion; Index