Japanese School of Guam

The Japanese School of Guam (グアム日本人学校, Guamu Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Mangilao, Guam.^[1] It includes both day school and weekend supplementary school divisions, and the school also holds Japanese language classes.^[2] As of April 2013 Toyohito Yoneyama is the chairperson of the school.^[3]

History

Prior to the establishment of the day school, Japanese children in Guam attended a special supplementary Japanese school.^[4]

Around the years 1987-1989 there was a committee held to establish a Japanese day school in Guam.^[5]

References

Further reading

(Japanese)

• 芝野 淳一. "Teachers' Practice and Conflict of "Japaneseness" in Transnationalized Japanese Educational Institutions Overseas : A Case Study of the Japanese School of Guam" (日本人学校教員の「日本らしさ」をめぐる実践と葛藤 : トランスナショナル化する在外教育施設を事例に). 教育社会学研究 95, 111-130, 2014. 東洋館出版社. See profile at CiNii.
• 馬渕 豊 (前グアム日本人学校:静岡県浜松市立神久呂小学校). "グアム日本人学校における言語の教育(教科指導) ." 在外教育施設における指導実践記録 33, 59-62, 2010-12-24. Tokyo Gakugei University. See profile at CiNii.
• 小平 孝昌 (栃木県小山市立大谷東小学校・グァム日本人学校(前)). "グアム日本人学校における総合的な学習の実践(第3章総合的な学習)." 在外教育施設における指導実践記録 28, 36-39, 2005. Tokyo Gakugei University. See profile at CiNii.

External links

• (Japanese) Official website
• (Japanese) Japanese School of Guam - Full day and weekend school page
• Japanese School of Guam (English site) at Google Sites
• (Japanese) Japanese School of Guam old website (Archive)
• (Japanese) Guam Hoshuko old website (Archive)
• (Japanese) Japanese School of Guam old website (Archive)
• (Japanese) Japanese School of Guam at the Japan Club of Guam (グアム日本人会 Guamu Nihonjinkai)
• (Japanese) Japanese School of Guam at the Japan Club of Guam (Archive)

Japanese international day and boarding schools in the United States High schools Keio Academy of New York Closed Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School Elementary and junior high schools Chicago Futabakai Japanese School The Greenwich Japanese School Japanese School of Guam The New Jersey Japanese School Nishiyamato Academy of California Seigakuin Atlanta International School Permanently closed International Bilingual School K-8? schools Lyceum Kennedy Japanese School (New York City) The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) classifies Keio Academy of New York, Nishiyamato Academy, and Seigakuin Atlanta, in addition to the former Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, as shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (overseas branches of Japanese private schools). The Greenwich, New Jersey, Chicago, and Guam schools are classified by MEXT as nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international schools) as they are operated by Japanese associations. Italicized schools, including the Lyceum Kennedy and International Bilingual School (as of 2000), are/were not recognized as Japanese schools by MEXT.

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