Education Of The Rising Sun 21 An Introduction To Education In Japan

Author : 岡本薫
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Continuing education
ISBN : UCSD:31822031308182

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Education of the Rising Sun 21;An Introduction to Education in Japan by 岡本薫 Pdf

This book was written with the intention of presenting meaningful and interesting information about education in Japan in a way so that readers will obtain a more complete understanding of it. There are three characteristic ways the Japanese think about education: (1) there is an emotionally charged "penchant for education," which is not necessarily logically based; (2) the fundamental purpose of education is toward the cultivation of character or "kokoro"; and (3) there is a push toward "equality" in education in that all children can and should develop in the same manner. The teaching of knowledge and skills is referred to as "training" and is given a status lower than that given to character development. The history of education in Japan is presented to provide context for the maintenance of these values and their selective evolution that helped the country recover from World War II and eventually become an economic superpower. The various values and facets of education in Japan present both strengths and hindrances to modernization in ways that can be difficult for somebody outside the country's culture to understand. It is hoped that this book will shed light on these traits, values, strengths, and problems that make Japanese education distinctively unique. (RT)

Author : Youngwha Kee,Yunji Kim,Rhonda Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319124391

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Learning and Community Approaches for Promoting Well-Being by Youngwha Kee,Yunji Kim,Rhonda Phillips Pdf

This Brief provides perspectives on bringing together elements of learning and community approaches for promoting overall wellbeing. Drawing on experiences of authors from across Asia, Europe, and North America, cases are presented to illustrate both policy and application of adult learning, child wellbeing, community integration and learning, as well as intergenerational cooperation. Starting with foundational concepts of community wellbeing and community learning, the briefs provides an exploration of constructs and ideas for exploring application. The remaining chapters detail cases of community wellbeing, providing insights on approaches, as well as self-generated processes. Policy approaches, whether driven by local governance or from within individual organizations or sectors of communities, are discussed in addition to outcomes generated by the approaches. ​

Author : Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438457871

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Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan by Akihiro Ogawa Pdf

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era. Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan’s recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan’s policymakers, and statistics find one-third of Japanese people engaged in some form of these activities. Activities that increase abilities and improve health help manage the insecurity that comes with Japan’s new economic order and increased income disparity. Ogawa notes that the state attempts to integrate the divided and polarized Japanese population through a newly imagined collectivity, atarashii k?ky? or the New Public Commons, a concept that attempts to redefine the boundaries of moral responsibility between the state and the individual, with greater emphasis on the virtues of self-regulation. He discusses the history of lifelong learning in Japan, grassroots efforts to create an entrepreneurial self, community schools that also function as centers for problem solving, vocational education, and career education.

Author : Wendy L. Haight,Edward H. Taylor,Ruth Soffer-Elnekave
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190937744

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Human Behavior for Social Work Practice by Wendy L. Haight,Edward H. Taylor,Ruth Soffer-Elnekave Pdf

Featuring an interdisciplinary, developmental, ecological-systems framework, Human Behavior for Social Work Practice, Third Edition helps students implement a consistent system through which to approach multifaceted social issues in any environment. Students will learn that by effectively connecting theory to practice, they can develop successful strategies to use as they encounter complex issues currently facing social workers, whether it be in inner city schools or rural nursing homes with individuals of different ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status. This text examines social work issues at various points in human development using specific programs and policies to illustrate developmentally- and culturally-sensitive social work practice. Excerpts from interviews with practicing social workers highlight real-life experiences and introduce a variety of policy contexts. Part 3 of the text focuses on social work issues affecting individuals across the lifespan and around the globe through chapters on disability and stigmatization; race, racism and resistance; women and gender; and terrorism.

Author : Misa Kayama,Wendy Haight,May-Lee Ku,Minhae Cho,Hee Yun Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190844868

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Disability, Stigmatization, and Children's Developing Selves by Misa Kayama,Wendy Haight,May-Lee Ku,Minhae Cho,Hee Yun Lee Pdf

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspectives of educators practicing in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Synthesizing research that spanned over a decade, this volume seeks to understand disabilities in different developmental and cultural contexts. The research presented in this book found that educators from all four cultural groups expressed strikingly similar concerns about the impact of stigmatization on the emerging cultural self, both with children with disabilities and their typically developing peers, while also describing culturally nuanced socialization goals and practices pertaining to inclusive education. In providing a multicultural view of common challenges in classrooms from around the world, this book provides important lessons for the improvement of children's lives, as well as the development of theory, policy, and programs that are culturally sensitive and sustainable.

Author : Misa Kayama,Wendy Haight
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199970827

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DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT by Misa Kayama,Wendy Haight Pdf

This book examines how the concept of disability is starting to take root in the Japanese school system, and what the implications are for parents, teachers, policy makers, and other stakeholders.

Author : Drew Emanuel Berkowitz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bullying in schools
ISBN : 9783030581213

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Framing School Violence and Bullying in Young Adult Manga by Drew Emanuel Berkowitz Pdf

This book closely examines the ways in which many popular, internationally-published Japanese young adult manga graphic novel titles frame instances of K-12 school-situated violence and bullying. Manga is a Japanese literary medium that has grown worldwide as an increasingly visible fixture of young adults' recreational reading habits. The author uncovers the medium's most prevalent patterns of defining, depicting, and discussing school-situated violence and bullying. Through the lens of socio-cultural media frame analysis, he explores what these patterns might indicate about young adults' preexisting views and beliefs about occurrences of violence and bullying within their own school environments. This in-depth investigation of manga literature provides important information pertaining to the pedagogies and practices of K-12 teachers and school administrators, as well as detailed advice for parents of young adult manga fans.

Author : Ann Kristin Boström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Adult education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112978858

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Lifelong Learning, Intergenerational Learning, and Social Capital by Ann Kristin Boström Pdf

Author : Masahiro Tanaka
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927403

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The Cross-cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices by Masahiro Tanaka Pdf

This book analyses comparatively the creation of American and Japanese universities on the model of German universities largely in the late nineteenth century, and the reform of German and Japanese universities on the model of American universities after the end of the Second World War. The argument is that transferring educational concepts and practices from one cultural context to another involves not merely a ‘transfer’, but a ‘transformation’. How and why this transformation occurs is what this book is about. More precisely, it is suggested that transformation of educational concepts and practices during their cross-cultural movement can be understood within a theoretical perspective that is proposed and developed in the book. This book is divided into six chapters. Chapter One, as the introduction, analyses several scholars’ approaches to the aspects of educational transfer, then attempts to construct a theoretical perspective for the book on the processes of change in educational concepts and practices during their movement across cultures. Chapters Two and Three offer two narratives to investigate how German university concepts and practices were transmuted as a consequence of local actors’ efforts to import these concepts and practices into Japan and the United States. Chapters Four and Five provide another two narratives to examine how American university concepts and practices were altered as a result of American actors’ attempts to export these concepts and practices to Japan and Germany. Chapter Six, as the conclusion, through reflecting on the four narratives given in the main chapters, re-examines the ways in which the theoretical perspective of this book is useful to understand the processes of transformation of educational concepts and practices during their movement from one culture to another.

Author : Christopher P. Hood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134571161

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Japanese Education Reform by Christopher P. Hood Pdf

The Japanese education system has attracted increasing attention over the past 20 years, largely due to the belief that it has been central to Japan's economic growth. Many have felt, however that the system is stunted by an inability, or perhaps even on an incapacity, to change. This study challenges these contentions. It examines the reform policies implemented by Prime Minister Nakasone during the 1980s and argues that, not only has the system changed considerably as a result of Nakasone's work, but that it continues to do so. It analyses the key areas of the education reform debate, in particular internationalism, government control of education, increased liberalization and various social problems, and considers the degree to which response to them have been successful. This book will be of great interest to all those interested in the Japanese educational system.

Author : Miki Y. Ishikida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0595350496

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Japanese Education in the 21st Century by Miki Y. Ishikida Pdf

The Center for US-Japan Comparative Social Studies (www.usjp.org) is an Internet-based nonprofit organization. Since its inception in 2000, the Center has provided information about education, culture and society in the United States and Japan. The author of this book, Miki Y. Ishikida, is Director and a principal researcher at the Center. Japanese Education in the 21st Century is an introduction to contemporary Japanese education and provides the latest information and resources for educators and anyone with an interest in the Japanese school system. Author Miki Y. Ishikida describes The rapid changes in today's Japanese schools and communities that came about from the implementation of the 1987 recommendation of the National Council on Educational Reform that relaxed rigid school regulations Compensatory education and ethnic education for minority and disadvantaged children--Buraku children, Ainu children, Korean children, Nikkei children and disabled children--that are designed to improve their academic achievements and to give them a sense of pride in their heritage Human rights education aimed to instill respect, acceptance, and tolerance for all people by teaching the history and culture of minority population. Ishikida discusses the current state of the Japanese educational system, and the issues of minority education, special education, and lifelong education based upon her examination of administrative documents, school journals, and secondary literature. She also presents the results of case studies from her classroom observations and interviews with teachers and administrators from a cross-section of Japanese schools.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Library science
ISBN : UCAL:C2981063

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Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : UCBK:B000697720

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A Report from the U.S. Study of Education in Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : PURD:32754076273741

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Japanese Education Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822024968257

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Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan) Pdf