Post date: May 16, 2014 6:10:33 AM
In this research, I researched about “Amerasian School In Okinawa”, which is the school for Amerasian in Okinawa. Amerasian and their parents, especially Japanese mother are discriminated. Amerasians are sometimes buried by other students at school because of their look, the difference of culture or language barrier. Finally, they give up going to school.
So in 1998, the first school for Amerasians was established by Amerasians’ mother. They wanted Amerasians including their children to have proud of having both American and Asian as parents and they have aim at giving children the fortitude to live. Philosophy of the school is respecting both American culture and Japanese culture equally and studying in both English and Japanese. For elementary school students, teachers teach 80% of the study in English and 20% of that in Japanese. For junior high school students, teachers teach half of study in English and half of it in Japanese. It is little different from original public school in Okinawa. Students go to school from 8:30 to 15:30 and if they want to do, after school, they can join club activity by 18:30. Class spoken in English has Language Art, Math, Science, Social Science, and P.E. In these classes, native speakers teach subject to students. Class spoken in Japanese has Japanese, Math, Social studies, Science and integrated study. In the school, there are 5 American teachers, one Philippine teacher and one Japanese teacher.
Firstly, Amerasian School was started as unauthorized free school. It means that if students take education and graduate from Amerasian School, the government does not recognize academic record. But in 1999, some Okinawa’s organization corporate and Amerasian School became recognized as private educational facility.
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