EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	Visits to students’ homes by teachers have four aims: (1) to understand students’ family and community environments, (2) to understand students’ roles in their families and communities, (3) to ascertain parents’ educational needs for their children and (4) to communicate teachers’ or schools’ educational philosophy to parents. (Visits to children’s homes/V-31・32)