Gasshuku

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Gasshuku ( Japanese 合 宿 , literally: "shared accommodation", also "leisure courses") in Japan describes the practice of learning, studying or practicing together with a specific purpose or goal, whereby groups of like-minded people are formed who attend specific extracurricular activities Find places together for a limited time. This practice of shared learning is rooted in the Confucian ideal of education. The basic idea is to strengthen the sense of community by learning from one another, ideally the “better” supporting the “worse”. The decisive factor is not the individual talent, but the "sincere effort" that the individual makes. The Gasshuku is thus part and characteristic of the Japanese " educational society " ( 学 歴 社会 , Gakureki shakai ).

Common learning goals

  • Formation of working groups and clubs in schools and companies to strengthen systematic and cooperative cooperation.
  • The transfer of knowledge between employees of companies or public institutions, e.g. the community, according to the Kōhai - Senpai principle.
  • Common drumming in preparatory schools, juku or yobikō , which offer tuition or prepare for the entrance exam at a university.
  • Joint learning for the driving test.
  • Joint planning and development of new products in companies and companies.

Accommodations

For the Gasshuku, accommodations are mostly used that are extracurricular and not private, i.e. H. for example, private living spaces of the participants are:

  • so-called seminar houses ( セ ミ ナ ー ハ ウ ス , Seminā hausu )
  • Hotels
  • Minshuku

Special forms of gasshuku

  • “Joint software development” ( 開 発 合 宿 , Kaihatsu Gasshuku ) - mostly takes place in hotels or ryokans with onsen .
  • “Summer School in the Forest” ( 林 間 学校 , Rinkan Gakkō ) or “Summer School by the Sea” ( 臨海 学校 , Rinkai Gakkō ) - school trips in elementary and middle school, usually between spring and autumn. Supplementing the curriculum with joint activities to strengthen the sense of community, such as hiking, campfires, preparing food together, etc. At the same time, social forms of dealing with one another are learned and practiced.
  • Training camp for sporting activities, e.g. in martial arts.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ An important principle of Japanese culture is the seniority principle . Accordingly, the younger pays the older one respect and thereby recognizes the knowledge and experience advantage of the older one. In companies in particular, the senior in terms of age is not necessarily the senior, but rather the senior according to the length of time they have been with the company. This fact is also expressed in the general term for teachers ( 先生 , sensei ). In the strict sense of the word, a sensei is someone who was born earlier .
  2. ↑ literally: development camp

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Coulmas: The culture of Japan. Tradition and modernity . S. 184 (The translation of Coulmas in a chapter that characterizes the school as an institution seems a bit too narrow in the general context. The characterization, which deals with the catchphrase: learning together, in a certain place, mostly in leisure time, with a certain Purpose, which can be summarized, is congruent with the more general description here.).
  2. ↑ 合 宿 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed February 26, 2012 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Florian Coulmas: The culture of Japan. Tradition and modernity . S. 181 .