Yoko Yamamoto, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, recently published an article in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

In a recent article, Yoko Yamamoto found that first graders attending public schools in Osaka, Japan, and Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the United States expressed shared and different beliefs such as purposes, benefits, and emotions related to attending and learning at school. Her study also revealed no socioeconomic differences in students' beliefs related to school learning within Japan. Yoko provided interpretations of these findings in relation to the Japanese educational system and teaching practices in her article, "Young children's beliefs about school learning in Japan and the United States: Cultural and socioeconomic comparisons."

Read the full article here.