金児 正史

Improvement of language abilities in each subjects are required at all schools in Japan now. Course of study says all schools in Japan also must cultivate students' abilities of thinking, decision with evidence and presentation. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has already provided introduction textbooks for teachers on improvement of language abilities. Many teachers use and refer these textbooks now. This paper comes up with using language arts technique for each subjects in Japan and shows importance of exploring for teaching materials and teaching methods by two lesson studies using language arts technique at graduate school and middle school.

In 2007, an in-service seminar for arithmetic education was held on Pohnpei island in the Federated states of Micronesia by the JICA office in Micronesia. The content of this seminar and some specific ideas from this seminar are reported here.

Teacher training of science and mathematics of the Republic of South Africa is carried out in cooperation of Naruto University of Education and Hiroshima University, JICA from 1998. Now, educational support is performed as the Mpumalanga Secondary Science Initiative (MSSI). In this paper, I clarify their ideas of the mathematics education with considering the unit of textbook based on mathematics curriculum of the grade 12th along Curriculum2005 which is already carried out in the Republic of South Africa.