Comparing science curricula in Myanmar and Japan: Objectives and content covered in lower secondary textbooks

An analysis of textbooks can lead to a comparison the curricula in two nations and how curriculum standards determine textbook content developed developing country. Deductive was employed analyze compare objectives mandated science Myanmar Japan, articulation textbooks’ on curricula’s including approaches learning taught at grade-6 grade-7 Japan. The results show that both countries’ are clearly cultivate students’ scientific knowledge, skills, attitudes. exchanges knowledge between contexts analyzed Japanese textbook’s employment step-by-step detailed inquiry-based approach for students learn light sound concept, Myanmar’s description some technical terms mother tongue (Burmese) English.