Abstract
In Japan, the educational system is approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The approximate number of class hours currently spent teaching “taxonomic classification” is only about 18 hours in six years of elementary school education and ten hours in the three years of junior high school education. To teach the concept, two or three types of derived annual dicotyledons and insects are studied in the third grade of elementary school, whereas selected spermatophytes and vertebrates are examined during the junior high school years. In senior high school, less derived cryptogams and invertebrates are covered at a basic level in the “Science synthesis B” which is one of the required optional subjects, and “taxonomy and systematics” may be learnt in the “Biology II” which is an optional subject. It is recommended here that the curriculum covering taxonomy should be strengthened further at all educational levels in Japan.
