Moral Education in Everyday Life

At Japanese elementary and junior high schools, Morality is supposed to be taught once a week; however, moral education permeates Japanese school life. When teachers speak in front of students at morning and afternoon homeroom meetings, they almost always manage to connect quaotidian things (e.g., homework) and events (e.g., some students forgot to bring their homework) to moral lessons on "character"--who the good person is, how students should aspire to become one, and so on.

I should discourse-analyze those teachers' speech if they are okay with being audiotaped. Although I don't have a comparative perspective on this, the morally saturated speech by teachers may be somewhat peculiar to Japan....