2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Teacher education courses

Studies of Moral Education

Academic unit or major: Teacher education courses
Instructor(s): Kenichi Eshima
Class Format: Lecture (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): Intensive (教職HPで確認のこと)
Class: -
Course Code: LAT.A201
Number of credits: 200
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 3-4Q
Syllabus updated: Jun 25, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course is designed to provide an essential, historical, theoretical, and practical understanding of moral education and to develop practical skills for moral education.

Course description and aims

The purposes of this lecture are as follows:
・To understand the history of moral education in Japan and other countries.
・To understand the fundamentals of the teaching process and classroom theory in moral education.
・To be able to write lesson plans for moral education classes.

Keywords

moral education

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Provided as an intensive course

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Introduction-moral and moral education	Students are required to review the topics covered in the class in order to master the topics.
Class 2	moral education and morality	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 3	The history of moral education in Japan①Prewar	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 4	The history of moral education in Japan②Postwar	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 5	Foreign situations	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 6	Moral education in school	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 7	How to write lesson plans	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 8	How to teach moral education class	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 9	Analysis of teaching materials①"Magician"	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 10	Analysis of teaching materials②"Two letters"	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 11	Promoting moral education teachers	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 12	How to evaluation moral education	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 13	Presentation of lesson plans	Students are required to read additional materials previously.
Class 14	Conclusion-moral education and teachers	Students are required to read additional materials previously.

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

・Course of Study of Moral Education for Middle Schools by MEXT.
Additional materials will be provided in the class.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Books listed above.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Reaction paper for each lesson：７０% ,Presentation based on lesson plans：３０%

Related courses

LAT.A101 ： Introduction to the Teaching Profession A
LAT.A102 ： Introduction to the Teaching Profession B

Prerequisites

Reading the material previously.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

eshima.k.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Appointment by email.

Other

Let's learn from each other about a better way of moral education!