That everyone should receive an education is a wonderful democratic ideal, but that everyone should receive the same education is a totalitarian ideal.
Below is a link to the Japanese version of a a keynote presentation I gave on 23 January, 2010, at the invitation of Meisei Gakuen, a highly innovative elementary and junior high school for the deaf, where sign language is fully recognized and developed as the native language of their students and used as a language of instruction. It is a dual language school in Japanese sign language and Japanese literacy, with the classes team-taught by a deaf teacher and a hearing teacher.
http://www.meiseigakuen.ed.jp/deafbilingual2010/keynote/index.html
About Me: Steven Parr
I am a long term resident of Japan, and the Founding Director of New International School of Japan, a dual language and multiage by design international school in Tokyo. It keeps me busy, but also I have ideas and images I would like to share, not all of which are directly related to education; hence, this blog site.