Challenges to Japanese Education

Challenges to Japanese Education
Title Challenges to Japanese Education PDF eBook
Author June A. Gordon
Publisher Teachers College Press
Pages 225
Release 2015-04-17
Genre Education
ISBN 0807770698

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In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. Traveling from Japan to engage in a unique forum at the University of California, they joined eminent professors Befu, DeVos, and Rohlen to bring over fifty leading scholars up to date on the global challenges facing Japan and how education has and will play into the reformulation of its identity. Chapters examine such topics as education policy changes, the education of minorities, including the Burakumin, the hegemony of college entrance examinations, social mobility and basic human rights, increased economic competition and global migration, political influences on educational reform, and the future of Japanese education.

Japanese Education Today

Japanese Education Today
Title Japanese Education Today PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 108
Release 1987
Genre Comparative education
ISBN

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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.

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.

Japanese Higher Education as Myth

Japanese Higher Education as Myth
Title Japanese Higher Education as Myth PDF eBook
Author Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher Routledge
Pages 286
Release 2015-03-04
Genre History
ISBN 1317467027

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In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese "quality education", McVeigh investigates the consequences of what happens when statistical and corporatist forces monopolize the purpose of schooling and the boundary between education and employment is blurred.