HOMESCHOOLING / AFTERSCHOOLING

Tree of Wisdom, in front of Benesse Corp., Tama Center

Below are links to the different feature articles, tips and news gathered as a collective resource by homeschooling and afterschooling parents at our discussion forum.

The first link discusses the different terms that are associated with homeschooling or home education or the unique Japanese phenomenon “futoko or school-refuser”.

The second link attempts to sum up the complex picture on whether homeschooling is legal in Japan

The third link brings you to our Resource Room for specific educational resources that might be helpful for homeschooling; and the fourth link provides a FAQ sheet that tries to cover the most-asked questions about homeschooling. The rest of the links relate to various topics and issues pertinent to the homeschooling arena.

Terms that make a difference: “homeschooler”, “home-educated” and “school-refuser” (futoko)?

Legality of Homeschooling in Japan

Resource Room

Q & A about Homeschooling / Homelearning (FAQs)

• Art: A journey through life and civilization
• Christmas traditions in Japan
• Different approaches to homeschooling
• Do reading curricula make a difference?
• Earthquakes and Japan
• Educate your kid at home 101 (A)
  • Educate your kid at home (B)
• Eaton Academy K – 12 Virtual Academy program
• ESL resource: Time4learning online program
• Great Books Program
• Hands on science resources
  • CSU conference gets kids to like science
• Handwriting: Which handwriting script to teach your child? | Teaching Children to Read & Write in More Than One Orthography (external link)
• Higher order thinking skills vs. critical thinking skills
• Homeschool Days
• Homeschool Networks in Japan (English & Japanese)
• Homeschool Support Organizations
• Homeschool help through tsushin sei distance learning programmes or daiken support schools
• Homeschooling – the road less traveled
• Homeschooling Your Child with Special Needs
• How to conduct multi-level homeschooling lessons
• In the news: Home-schooling on the rise
• Is your social studies curriculum a mile wide & an inch deep
• Kyoiku Kihon Ho (The Fundamental Law of Education)
• Legality of Homeschooling in Japan
  • Gov. views on “compulsory education”
  • One interpretation: foreigners obliged to ensure their kids receive compulsory schooling
• Math ability and your child
• Multilevel teaching – how do you homeschool when you have kids of different ages?
• Nature notebooking
• Nobel laureate Peter Agre’s advice on promoting science to the young: you need good role models and to make science fun, cool and interesting
• On art education & teaching art to children
• One family’s stellar and inspiring unschooling story
• Overcome your kids’ dyslexia with intensive remedial instruction
• Q & A about Homeschooling / Homelearning
• Sharing our strategies: kanji and kokugo studies
  • List of kanji being revised by the Council for Cultural Affairs
• Sharing our strategies: this is how we homeschool
  • Sharing our strategies (2)
• Subscribe to free! homeschooling newsletters
• Terms that make a difference: “homeschooler”, “home-educated” and “school-refuser” (futoko)?
• Thinking about morality and philosophy: rationality, evolution and behavioral science behind moral actions
• Unschooling for cultivating leadership
• Why should our kids care about geography? 
• You Must Remember This …
• Young Astronomer’s Club