"Infusing Japanese Language and Culture into the Pitt County, NC School System; A Short-term Seminar in Japan for K-12 Teachers"

East Carolina University's Asian Studies Program, in partnership with the Pitt County, NC School System, proposes a four-week, short-term seminar designed to enable participating K-12 teachers to develop and expand teaching modules for the study of Japanese language, history and culture in the K-12 curriculum of schools in eastern North Carolina. Via internet postings at a proposed ECU web site, "Education About Japan," accessible to educators nationwide, these teaching modules will be available to the larger educational community in the United States. Curricular developments will be made available through conference presentations and publications in teacher-related works such as Education About Asia. The seminar will include twelve K-12 teachers; an ECU professor of Japanese history, John A. Tucker; and an ECU instructor of Japanese language, Shigeo Yamaguchi, who also teaches in the public schools and will count as one of the K-12 teachers. The ECU group will travel to historic and cultural sites in the major centers of Japanese history, Kyoto, Nara, Kamakura, Tokyo, and Hiroshima. Following their return, K-12 teachers will devise instructional modules for infusing Japanese language, history, and culture into their teaching in the public schools.

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