School Events

The elementary school is now busy with preparation for the Art Festival at the end of the month. 2nd and 6th graders whom I've been observing are going to perform plays at the Festival. A chunk of regular class time is now used for practicing plays. It's interesting to see how different "subject-elements" exist in the preparation process: (1) Japanese in terms of reading scripts and understanding characters; (2) Music in terms of singing songs; (3) Manual Arts in terms of making props; (4) Moral Education in terms of working together in harmony.

In fact, what is probably most emphasized at school events is "solidarity of the class," "harmony of the class," etc. I've been wondering how this might be related to the production of a certain Japanese subject(ivity).