Managing Nonprofit Organization

I read this and found interesting, while social business rises in Japan too.

Managing the Nonprofit Organization

Cross over Developing & Developed Societies

Maruyama, Hideki. (2009). A Potentiality of Non-Formal Education beyond the Boundaries of Developed and Developing Countries: from a Japanese Academic Discourse, Innovative Education Research, 2009, 11-20.

要旨：いわゆる発展途上国と先進国を分けるには多くの理由があるのは確かである。ある者は、日本は発展途上国には注意を払うべきではなく、他の豊かな国々から成功経験をより輸入すべきだとし、またある者は、日本のように発展するため途上国に日本の成功経験を輸出すべきだとする。本論は、日本の学術的言説の議論に横たわる二元論を指摘するものである。そして、ノンフォーマル教育の言説に着目することで、学習と研究の本来的目的を再認識する。著者は、教育の歴史的理解と国内外における学習成果の近年の議論をまとめ、学習の目標と成果についてノンフォーマル教育の理論の潜在性を描写する。今日の世界における多様性が増すにつれ、直線的な発展モデルや明確な分類とは異なる視点が重要なのである。

Abstract: There are many reasons to separate the developing countries from the developed ones. Some people simply do not pay attention to the former because Japan should be developed more by importing good practices from the other rich countries. Others believe Japan should export its own good experiences to the developing countries to develop as like. This article points out the dichotomy lies in the discussions in the Japanese academic discourses, especially in education study, and tries to remind ourselves of the original purpose of learning and of research by focusing on the discourses of non-formal education. By doing so, the author summarizes historical understandings of education and recent discussions about learning outcomes in Japan and other countries and describes the potentiality of non-formal education theory to cover the goal and outcomes of learning. As diversity appears more in today’s world, the different view from a linear development model or sharp categorization is important.

Key words: Non-formal Education, Competence, Outcome of learning, Development

http://poligazette.com/2008/09/05/turkeys-real-problem/

"Turkey’s Real Problem... It is education.

Compared to the rest of Europe Turkey’s education system is horrible. It is sorely lacking in a variety of ways, but especially with regards to teaching students foreign languages.

During my visits to Turkey I have seen how teachers try to teach this highly important foreign language to their students. Sadly there are some problems. For instance, the average teacher is hardly able to communicate with a foreigner in English. His vocabulary is not big enough, his accent is too strong and he is nervous because he seldom speaks English to foreigners; he is used to speaking English to Turks, who often do not notice the horrible accent of their fellow Turk and his pathetic lack of a somewhat normal-sized vocabulary."

Wait a minute. I need to ask my home country if its normal school teachers could communicate in English.

some tools to be effective to people and efficient to business

http://www.letterfu.com/

print out, write and post it

http://www.drawanywhere.com/

flow

LLL and social capital in a Japanese community development

An article is now opened online, describing the case which nourish social capital by the collaboration among university, local government and private sector in a local Japanese city.

http://inased.org/epasad/v4n1/EPASADv4n1.pdf

Maruyama, Hideki (2009) Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Community Development in a Japanese Case, Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 4(1): 5-18.

Hypothesis of Educational Environments for the Turkish Students in Europe

I made a presentation at the 17 Education Science Congress this summer in Turkey. Files are as follows:

Presentation (PowerPoint)

Resume

Paper (English/Turkish)

The password to open the document is my full name. Translation into Turkish is greatly helped by Mustafa Bayrakcı. 

Education is the issue, not headscarf

Japanese education problem, especially foreign language education, is similar to Turkish one.

http://poligazette.com/2008/09/05/turkeys-real-problem/

Becoming a teacher needed having a good powerful friend?

Plenty of examinations anywhere around in Japan. I found an interesting one that would indicate how better you can check train's connections by official time table. People seem to love being certificated even by a joke-like exam.

Becoming a school teacher in Japan first requires receiving lessons of teaching subject(s) and of education theory and practice, mostly offered by universities. The graduates generally need to take at least one examination at the prefectural level. The examination results are judged by the prefectural education board to check the candidates pass the necessary level of knowledge. Some cities give more importance to their personality than their scores.

Here is bad news: some teachers did not pass the required score at the examination but were able to make it, according to media, because their "friend(s)" were influential to the personnel affairs of these boards. Money must have talked, and threat within the boards was pointed out. 

cannot conclude this post with no idea.

40% of family can not pay tuition

Osaka faces a severe budget problem, and its governor completely downsizes the waste of public service.

A school teacher in Osaka told that four out of ten families request for the subsidy for schooling their children at upper secondary level. (Japan's compulsory public schooling, ISCED 1&2, are free)

Osaka is now the center of financial difficulty both at the public and private levels.

Ageing Japan

75 year-old or above share 10.04% of the Japanese population as of March 2008.

The Japanese average life expectancy hits the highest, opened on July 31, 2008: 85.99 years old for women and 79.19 for men. The Japanese women live longest on the globe.

Women: Japan 85.99; Hong Kong 85.4; France 84.1

Men: Iceland 79.4; Hong Kong 79.3; Japan 79.19

More doc!

MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) of Japan announced on August 5 that the total enrollment number of medical department of all the Japanese universities will be increased up to 8,280 in 2009, which is 500 more than 7,793 in 2008. 

The Japanese youth tend to avoid being a doctor because the job is tough and takes risk of human lives. When a medical mistake happens, media and the public become absolutely critical. 

Olympic Game in Tokyo

Beijing Olympic is coming up. I hope the participating athletes will have no problems during their play and stay.

Tokyo has presented bids for the 2016 game.

Well, I hope the infrastructure will work out in 2016. Some of Tokyo subway and railway for commuters suddenly stops when abnormal weather conditions influence. Heavy rain stops some local train. Summer heat stops the subway and Yamanote line (see Ref.). Nobody can move an inch in the train even in normal rush hour...

Ref.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamanote_Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IcV3wnxc3g

Why not use bus or car?

Nah, Tokyo is the biggest train-based metropolitan in the world. Dont expect bus or vehicle bring you home.

Still wanna try here for the game? Yes, it would be the real life game.

Education for Muslims in Japan

The Japanese society is one of the most homogeneous at the national level. Minorities living here encounter daily problems and have educational needs for their own identity.

Maruyama (2007) writes the common problems in schooling among Muslims in Japan and points out the importance of key persons such as the Japanese who experienced out of Japan because they could share the student's views.

http://www.shingetsuinstitute.com/Maruyama1F.pdf

Maruyama, H. (2007). Diversity as Advantage in "Homogeneous" Society: Educational Environment for Muslim in Japan, Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations, 1, 57-78.

Half of Japanese Univ to Bankrupt

Hot news on tertiary school today here is future pandemic bankruptcy of higher education.

According to survey conducted by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (http://www.shigaku.go.jp/) about the fullfilmwent of school capacity, 47.1% (7.4 higher than last year) of private universities fall below the quota of new students. The survey covered 565 universities out of total 573 in Japan. Those below the quota were 266 and 29 fulfilled below 50% of the capacity. Many unpopular universities seem to be located not in urban areas but local cities.

The biggest cause is the population decline. It is evident that school education shift its quality from quantity as the expantion of standard curricular across country.

Their survival race has really started .

Foreign Language Educaiton at Elementary School in Japan

Foreign Language Education at Elementary School will officially start in 2011.
The government has announced the course of study on it.
But it is not easy to understand it for me.
I cannot imagine how the lesson should go at the moment.
It is very challenging to create new things.

educational effects in the recovery from earthquake

Japan has a lot of earthquake everyday. People can do nothing against the natural disaster if it is too large. 

When we face a hard time, we remember what they need to sustain.

The Turkish case is introduced as one of traditional values to be sustained in the process of recovering from the largest earthquake in their history: "Non-Formal Education for Sustainable Development in Turkey."

Maruyama, H. (2008). Non-Formal Education for Sustainable Development in Turkey: Re-evaluating Indigenous Culture and Civil Movement as Social Capital, Adult Education and Development, 70: DVV International.