Education In Japan

Author : Yuto Kitamura,Toshiyuki Omomo,Masaaki Katsuno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811326325

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Education in Japan by Yuto Kitamura,Toshiyuki Omomo,Masaaki Katsuno Pdf

This book illustrates the nature of Japan’s education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society. It describes the basic institutional structure of each educational stage, in an overview of today’s school education in Japan, while also analyzing the current implementation status of important policies and the progress of reform at each stage. The book also examines the status of and problems with various issues that are considered essential to education in Japan today. These include teachers, lesson studies, school and community, educational disparities, education and jobs, multiculturalism, university reforms, internationalization of education and English-language education, education for sustainable development, and others, covering a diverse range of fields. The book is unique in its attempt to comprehensively understand and analyze the educational field in Japan by drawing on the expertise of various academic disciplines.

Author : Yuri Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135952860

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Development Education in Japan by Yuri Ishii Pdf

This book aims to provide an explanation for the slow introduction of Development Education in Japan.

Author : Yasuhiro Nemoto
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 1581127995

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The Japanese Education System by Yasuhiro Nemoto Pdf

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.

Author : Masashi Tsujimoto,Yoko Yamasaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317295747

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The History of Education in Japan (1600 – 2000) by Masashi Tsujimoto,Yoko Yamasaki Pdf

As one of the most rapid and earliest nations to achieve "Western modernisation", much of Japan’s success stems from its fruitful literacy history during the Tokugawa shogunate as well as later influences from Western educational ideals and consequent economic and democratic conflicts in Japan. This book seeks to enlighten readers on how education and schooling contributed to Japan’s particular process of modernisation and industrialisation. These historical insights can be applied to crises in formal and systemised education today, and form the basis of potential solutions to controversies faced by formal education in Japan and other nation-states. A book that bridges the international information gap in Japan’s history of education will be immensely valuable to historians of both international and Japanese education.

Author : Hyunjoon Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134072873

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Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea by Hyunjoon Park Pdf

International comparisons of student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading have consistently shown that Japanese and Korean students outperform their peers in other parts of world. Understandably, this has attracted many policymakers and researchers seeking to emulate this success, but it has also attracted strong criticism and a range of misconceptions of the Japanese and Korean education system. Directly challenging these misconceptions, which are prevalent in both academic and public discourses, this book seeks to provide a more nuanced view of the Japanese and Korean education systems. This includes the idea that the highly standardized means of education makes outstanding students mediocre; that the emphasis on memorization leads to a lack of creativity and independent thinking; that students’ successes are a result of private supplementary education; and that the Japanese and Korean education systems are homogenous to the point of being one single system. Using empirical data Hyunjoon Park re-evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the existing education systems in Japan and Korea and reveals whether the issues detailed above are real or unfounded and misinformed. Offering a balanced view of the evolving and complex nature of academic achievement among Japanese and Korean students, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian, international and comparative education, as well as those interested in Asian society more broadly.

Author : 苅谷剛彦
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415556873

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Education Reform and Social Class in Japan by 苅谷剛彦 Pdf

This title demonstrates from a sociological point of view and by way of empirical analysis that educational reforms have caused profound changes in the society of post-war Japan. It focuses on the spread of inequality in Japanese society as an 'unintended outcome' to which the educational reforms ended up contributing.

Author : Dr Paul Snowden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463724672

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Handbook of Higher Education in Japan by Dr Paul Snowden Pdf

A 25-chapter book on Japan's system of colleges and universities, from both historical and contemporary viewpoints and themes. The first in a new series of handbooks on Japanese studies.

Author : United States. Education Mission to Japan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042905492

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Report of the United States Education Mission to Japan by United States. Education Mission to Japan Pdf

Author : William K. Cummings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400853717

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Education and Equality in Japan by William K. Cummings Pdf

On the basis of direct personal observation in the classroom, systematically gathered data, and extensive reading in primary sources, the author provides a rich description of how a society can be gradually transformed by the educational process in its schools. He then relates this process to the problems of the advanced industrial world. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Thomas P. Rohlen,Christopher Bjork
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415168430

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Education and Training in Japan by Thomas P. Rohlen,Christopher Bjork Pdf

This collection, written by Japanese and foreign scholars, represents an inclusive cross-section of the most important work in key areas of this field. Topics include: * the impact of Japanese education and training on Japan's economy and culture * the Japanese influence on the "East Asian approach" to education, in comparison with the educational systems of Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong * Japan's promotion of "learning organizations" and "Knowledge workers" for the Information Age.

Author : Kaori H. Okano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317803454

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Education and Social Justice in Japan by Kaori H. Okano Pdf

This book is an up-to-date critical examination of schooling in Japan by an expert in this field. It focuses on developments in the last two decades, with a particular interest in social justice. Japan has experienced slow economic growth, changed employment practices, population decline, an aging society, and an increasingly multi-ethnic population resulting from migration. It has faced a call to respond to the rhetoric of globalization and to concerns in childhood poverty in the perceived affluence. In education we have seen developments responding to these challenges in national and local educational policies, as well as in school-level practices. What are the most significant developments in schooling of the last two decades? Why have these developments emerged, and how will they affect youth and society as a whole? How can we best interpret social justice implications of these developments in terms of both distributive justice and the politics of difference? To what extent have the shifts advanced the interests of disadvantaged groups? This book shows that, compared to three decades ago, the system of education increasingly acknowledges the need to address student diversity of all kinds, and delivers options that are more varied and flexible. But interest in social justice in education has tended to centre on the distribution of education (who gets how much of schooling), with fewer questions raised about the content of schooling that continues to advantage the already advantaged. Written in a highly accessible style, and aimed at scholars and students in the fields of comparative education, sociology of education and Japanese studies, this book illuminates changing policies and cumulative adjustments in the daily practice of schooling, as well as how various groups in society make sense of these changes.

Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134064090

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Primary School in Japan by Peter Cave Pdf

The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of two primary schools in the Kinki district of Japan, discusses these debates.

Author : Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 076560924X

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Japanese Higher Education as Myth by Brian J. McVeigh Pdf

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.

Author : Edward R. Beauchamp,Richard Rubinger
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015015465324

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Education in Japan by Edward R. Beauchamp,Richard Rubinger Pdf

Author : Edward R. Beauchamp,James M. Vardaman Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317467069

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Japanese Education since 1945 by Edward R. Beauchamp,James M. Vardaman Jr Pdf

A study of postwar education in Japan which is intended to shed light on the development of Japanese educational policy. Major educational documents are included, some taken from records of the American occupation forces and others being original translations from Japanese sources.