NATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF CONCEPT LIFE IN JAPANESE PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSE (BASED ON THE COURSE OF MORAL EDUCATION)

The paper is dedicated to the analysis of the 道徳教育 (‘Course of Moral Education'), being one of the most significant parts of Japanese pedagogical discourse in the field of schooling. This paper presents the results of lingvocultural and concept analysis, aimed at describing the national interpretation of concept LIFE in the light of Japanese worldview values, transmitted to the young generation. Relevance and novelty also depends on lack of description of japanese educational discourse in academic literature and its precedential texts are always studied in the light of pedagogic and culturology. As a result of the study, the differences of concept LIFE interpretation are reviled