Thinking about various social issues facing the world with TV personality and university student Marika Sera, “I want to know the world better! The theme of the fourth session is “Education. The theme of the fourth session is “Education. Special guests include Tetsuo from the comedy duo “Laugh Rice,” and we interviewed Takashi Hamano, professor at Ochanomizu University, and Shinpei Taguchi, manager of JICA’s Human Development Division.
(I’ll tell you about it in the video and in the article)
What is the current state of education in the world and in Japan?
Marika Sera (Sera) I understand that Tetsuo is running a cram school.
Tetsuo Laughing Rice (Tetsuo) It is a very inexpensive cram school. A Yoshimoto employee once told me that it costs 60,000 to 70,000 yen a month for cram school for children, so I thought that only children from rich families could go to cram school. When I was in elementary school, my neighbor’s grandmother taught me for a monthly fee of 3,000 yen. So I started a cram school for children from various family backgrounds.
Tetsuo Laughing Rice
Formed the comedy duo “Laugh Rice” in 2000.
Graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University, Department of Philosophy, and has been running Terakoya Koyaya, a low-cost supplementary cram school, since 2014 Marika Sera
Worked as a model and TV personality
Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 2002, currently enrolled in the Faculty of Policy Studies at Keio University
Tsunaki Ito, JICA Public Relations Department (hereinafter “Ito”) When you think of “countries where children’s education is advanced,” where do you think of?
Sera: Asian countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore?
Shinpei Taguchi, Section Chief, Human Development Department, JICA (hereafter, Taguchi) Yes, Singapore is ranked first in the 2022 Programme for International Assessment of School Achievement (PISA), which features a math learning program called “Singapore Math”. For example, writing the number 100 on a bar and dividing it by two yields 50. This is a visual and concrete “bar model” to deepen mathematical thinking.
Sera How is this different from the Japanese teaching method?
Taguchi: In fact, Japan is also one of the top countries in the world in PISA. In all three areas of “mathematical literacy,” “scientific literacy,” and “reading comprehension,” Japan’s average scores and rankings have risen since the last survey in 2018. When it comes to math learning, Japanese elementary schools, like their Singapore counterparts, teach concrete mathematical concepts using tombola sets and other tools. A distinctive feature of Japanese math learning is the use of “problem-based learning,” in which students find ways to solve problems on their own. In Singapore, problem-solving learning is also practiced, but children learn several solution methods first and then choose the appropriate one to solve the problem. In Japan, on the other hand, children are free to find their own solutions through trial and error.
Shinpei Taguchi: center of photo
Chief, Human Development Division, JICA
After working as a teacher at a public junior high school and as a member of JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (South Africa), he joined JICA in 2013.
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