Exploring Japan's Educational Success
The Japanese model of education has gained worldwide attention recently, as a system which has simultaneously moved with the modern trends of learning and schooling yet has retained significant traditional practices[1]. Japan has one of the best educated populations in the world, with a 100% enrolment rate for compulsory schooling years, 100% literacy and 46% of all high school graduates attending university[2]. The system of moral education which emphasises student-driven co
The Bilingual Brain - Benefits of learning another language
In an increasingly globalised world, most of the world’s population are bilingual or multilingual (Romaine, 1995). To date, there have been a large number of studies into the benefits and detractions of learning a second language from an early age. For most of the early half of the twentieth century, researchers were actually under the impression that children who were fluent in more than one language were actually at a disadvantage to their monolingual contemporaries, howeve
