The Japanese Education System

The Japanese Education System
Title The Japanese Education System PDF eBook
Author Yasuhiro Nemoto
Publisher Universal-Publishers
Pages 240
Release 1999
Genre Education
ISBN 9781581127997

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This comprehensive study of the Japanese education system follows the Japanese child from the kindergarten, through the progressively more arduous and competitive environments of the elementary, middle and high schools, to the relative relaxation, even hedonism, of university life. Drawing on numerous surveys and on the author's personal experience, it provides a wealth of information on teaching methodologies, discipline, class sizes, the school day, assessment and the national curriculum. It also examines the role of the central Ministry of Education and the local boards in administering education throughout the country, and outlines and assesses the government's recent programs of educational reform. The behavior, attitudes and expectations of pupils and parents are discussed in detail, and placed within their political, social and historical context, revealing the complex cultural assumptions determining learning and socialization in Japan. This study thus contributes to the efforts of educators and sociologists to understand and evaluate different approaches to education in diverse cultures, increasingly important in the global information age. It shows how the American and Japanese education systems are based on fundamentally different concepts of society: democratic individualism and hierarchic collectivism respectively. While discussing the positive and negative effects of each extreme, it suggests that American educators might learn from a system in which truancy, insolence, violence and drug abuse are comparatively rare. However, the study shows how the traditional ideals of Japanese education - unquestioning acceptance, self-sacrifice, and respect for superiors - face serious challenges in a time of globalization, and moral, social and cultural change.

Japanese Education Today

Japanese Education Today
Title Japanese Education Today PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 108
Release 1987
Genre Comparative education
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A look at Japanese education today

A look at Japanese education today
Title A look at Japanese education today PDF eBook
Author Kay C. McKinney
Publisher
Pages 2
Release 1987
Genre Education
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Learning Gap

Learning Gap
Title Learning Gap PDF eBook
Author Harold Stevenson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 244
Release 1994-01-26
Genre Education
ISBN 0671880764

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Compares United States elementary education practices with those in Asia and comes to some surprising conclusions.

The History of Modern Japanese Education

The History of Modern Japanese Education
Title The History of Modern Japanese Education PDF eBook
Author Benjamin C. Duke
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 436
Release 2009
Genre Education
ISBN 0813544033

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The History of Modern Japanese Education is the first account in English of the construction of a national school system in Japan, as outlined in the 1872 document, the Gakusei. Divided into three parts tracing decades of change, the book begins by exploring the feudal background for the Gakusei during the Tokugawa era which produced the initial leaders of modern Japan. Next, Benjamin Duke traces the Ministry of Education's investigations of the 1870s to determine the best western model for Japan, including the decision to adopt American teaching methods. He then goes on to cover the eventual "reverse course" sparked by the Imperial Household protest that the western model overshadowed cherished Japanese traditions. Ultimately, the 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education integrated Confucian teachings of loyalty and filial piety with Imperial ideology, laying the moral basis for a western-style academic curriculum in the nation's schools.

Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19

Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19
Title Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19 PDF eBook
Author Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 467
Release 2021-09-14
Genre Education
ISBN 3030815005

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This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the book explains how the interruption of in person instruction and the variable efficacy of alternative forms of education caused learning loss and disengagement with learning, especially for disadvantaged students. Other direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic diminished the ability of families to support children and youth in their education. For students, as well as for teachers and school staff, these included the economic shocks experienced by families, in some cases leading to food insecurity and in many more causing stress and anxiety and impacting mental health. Opportunity to learn was also diminished by the shocks and trauma experienced by those with a close relative infected by the virus, and by the constrains on learning resulting from students having to learn at home, where the demands of schoolwork had to be negotiated with other family necessities, often sharing limited space. Furthermore, the prolonged stress caused by the uncertainty over the resolution of the pandemic and resulting from the knowledge that anyone could be infected and potentially lose their lives, created a traumatic context for many that undermined the necessary focus and dedication to schoolwork. These individual effects were reinforced by community effects, particularly for students and teachers living in communities where the multifaceted negative impacts resulting from the pandemic were pervasive. This is an open access book.

The History of Japan's Educational Development

The History of Japan's Educational Development
Title The History of Japan's Educational Development PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 280
Release 2004
Genre Education
ISBN 9784902715002

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