Reitaku University has applied to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to establish a moral education major in the Graduate School of Education as part of the 150th anniversary of the founder's birth. We are aiming to start the course in April 2018, and if it is realized, it will be the first time in Japan.The government plans to send out specialized researchers and teachers as the government starts moral education in elementary school from 4 and junior high school in 2018.
Reitaku University began in 1935 when its founder, Dr. Chikuro Hiroike, opened a moral science major school, and has been focusing on moral education for a long time since the university opened in 1959.
According to Reitaku University, the establishment of the Department of Moral Education is based on the morality of children in fostering the "power to live" of children living in a new era. The purpose is to train researchers who can provide new knowledge to the university.
In addition, he said that he would further understand that moral education is conducted throughout school activities, and cultivate human resources who can enhance moral guidance not only in subject education but also outside the subject. As a teacher, he also aims to develop teachers who can learn morals with their children and continue to improve their humanity.
At elementary and junior high schools, "moral time" is currently set up as an extracurricular activity, one hour a week.The teaching materials used are supplementary readers that are not certified and materials that teachers have created independently, but the government has decided to make morality a special subject because of the frequent occurrence of children's mental problems such as frequent bullying. rice field.
