Education Reform Policy At A Japanese Super Global University

Author : Grant Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12
Category : Education and globalization
ISBN : 1032391847

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Education Reform Policy at a Japanese Super Global University by Grant Black Pdf

"This book is a case study of policy translation at an elite Japanese university. Through an analysis of the implementation of government-funded reform policies, Black investigates the role of the university in society, the youth-to-work transition, and systems of organisational management operative at the university. Black was present throughout the initial adoption phase of the Super Global project, a policy project implemented at an elite Japanese university, the University of Tsukuba. Aligned with a basic critical realist perspective, the different components of his research are integrated in four levels of analysis: the macro level of policy, the organisation level of the university, the departmental level of the English Section, and the individual level of the student. The analysis and the different sources of data look at internal structures of the organisation and try to understand what the mechanisms of policy translation operative are in the integrated and overlapping complexity of the four levels of analysis. At the core of the research is the objective of understanding why things are as they are. The main theories to emerge from the case study serve to inform the judgements and decisions of practitioners or policy-makers in this area. It is a telling case for internationalisation-focused education reform policy in Japan"--

Author : Grant Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000802139

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Education Reform Policy at a Japanese Super Global University by Grant Black Pdf

This book is a case study of policy translation at an elite Japanese university. Through an analysis of the implementation of government-funded reform policies, Black investigates the role of the university in society, the youth-to-work transition, and systems of organisational management operative at the university. Black was present throughout the initial adoption phase of the Super Global project, a policy project implemented at an elite Japanese university, the University of Tsukuba. Aligned with a basic critical realist perspective, the different components of his research are integrated in four levels of analysis: the macro level of policy, the organisation level of the university, the departmental level of the English Section, and the individual level of the student. The analysis and the different sources of data look at internal structures of the organisation and try to understand what the mechanisms of policy translation operative are in the integrated and overlapping complexity of the four levels of analysis. At the core of the research is the objective of understanding why things are as they are. The main theories to emerge from the case study serve to inform the judgements and decisions of practitioners or policy makers in this area. It is a telling case for internationalisation-focused education reform policy in Japan.

Author : Christopher P. Hood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Akito Okada
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857452689

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Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan by Akito Okada Pdf

In many societies today, educational aims or goals are commonly characterized in terms of “equality,” “equal opportunity,” “equal access” or “equal rights,” the underlying assumption being that “equality” in some form is an intelligible and sensible educational ideal. Yet, there are different views and lively debates about what sort of equality should be pursued; in particular, the issue of equality of educational opportunity has served as justification for much of the postwar restructuring of educational systems around the world. The author explores different interpretations of the concept of equality of educational opportunity in Japan, especially as applied to post-World War II educational policies. By focusing on the positions taken by key actors such as the major political parties, central administrative bodies, teachers’ unions, and scholars, he describes how their concepts have developed over time and in what way they relate to the making of educational policy, especially in light of Japan’s falling birthrate and aging society.

Author : Leonard James Schoppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134865161

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Education Reform in Japan by Leonard James Schoppa Pdf

The Japanese education system, while widely praised in western countries, is subject to heavy criticism within Japan. Education Reform in Japan analyses this criticism, and explains why proposed reforms have failed. The author shows how the Japanese policy-making process can become paralysed when there is disagreement, and argues that this `immobilism' can affect other areas of Japanese policy-making.

Author : Takehiko Kariya,Jeremy Rappleye
Publisher : International Perspectives on
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807764084

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Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age by Takehiko Kariya,Jeremy Rappleye Pdf

"Kariya and Rappleye focus on the Japanese model, looking at the country's educational history and policy shifts. They show how the Japanese experience can inform global approaches to educational reform and policymaking -and how this kind of exploration can reinvigorate a more rigorous discussion of meritocracy, equality, and education. This book is made available as an open-access electronic publication with the generous support of the Suntory Foundation"--

Author : June A. Gordon,Hidenori Fujita,Takehiko Kariya,Gerald LeTendre
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807770696

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Challenges to Japanese Education by June A. Gordon,Hidenori Fujita,Takehiko Kariya,Gerald LeTendre Pdf

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.

Author : David Blake Willis,Jeremy Rappleye
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927519

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Reimagining Japanese Education by David Blake Willis,Jeremy Rappleye Pdf

Sparked by the confluence of accelerating domestic transformation and increasingly explicit impacts from ‘globalization’, the Japanese education system has undergone tremendous changes during the turbulence of the past decade. This volume, which brings together some of the foremost scholars in the field of Japanese education, analyzes these recent changes in ways that help us ‘reimagine’ Japan and Japanese educational change at this critical juncture. Rather than simply updating well-worn Western images of Japan and its educational system, the aim of the book is a much deeper critical rethinking of the outmoded paradigms and perspectives that have rendered the massive shifts that have taken place in Japan largely invisible to or forgotten by the outside world. This ‘reimagining’ thus restores Japan to its place as a key comparative link in the global conversation on education and lays out new pathways for comparative research and reflection. Ranging widely across domains of policy and practice, and with a balance of Japanese and foreign scholars, the volume is also indicative of new directions in educational scholarship worldwide: approaches that center global interactions on domestic education and contribute to a far greater recognition of the polycentric, polycontextual World unfolding today. This book will be of keen interest to scholars of education worldwide, as well as those working in and across anthropology, sociology, policy studies, political science, and area studies given that contemporary transformations in Japan at once reflect and approximate political, social, and educational shifts occurring throughout the World in the early decades of the 21st century.

Author : Gary Hoichi Tsuchimochi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Educational change
ISBN : UCAL:B3869290

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Education Reform in Postwar Japan by Gary Hoichi Tsuchimochi Pdf

Author : Robert W. Aspinall
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004243729

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International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk by Robert W. Aspinall Pdf

In International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk, Robert Aspinall analyses the ways in which Japanese government policies on English language education and the promotion of Study Abroad have been implemented in schools and universities throughout Japan. The disjuncture between the aims of policy and the realities on the ground faced by individual teachers and students is explored in detail. Education policy designed to help to prepare Japan for the challenges of globalisation constantly comes up against institutional inertia, norms of teaching and learning, and concepts of national culture that obstruct the mastering of foreign languages or the acceptance of cultural, ethnic or linguistic diversity.

Author : Roger Goodman,David Phillips
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927595

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Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? by Roger Goodman,David Phillips Pdf

This volume analyses the success or otherwise of reform efforts in Japanese education since the Second World War. Contributors address a wide variety of themes from differing perspectives, their articles ranging from a historical study of reform efforts during the military occupation of Japan, through an analysis of educational developments under Prime Minister Nakasone, to the practical effects of changes in the teaching of mathematics. It will be of interest to all students of education in Japan.

Author : Edward R. Beauchamp,Richard Rubinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387149

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

This book, first published in 1989, includes essays on a number of the most important topics in Japanese education as well as the highly selected, and annotated, bibliographies. It is the editors' belief that understanding educational matters requires insight into the historical context, and have therefore placed contemporary Japanese educational matters in historical perspective.

Author : William K. Cummings
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032320942

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Educational Policies in Crisis by William K. Cummings Pdf

The essays in this book, prepared by Japanese and American educators, examine why the two countries have sought to learn about each other's educational system and what lessons have emerged from this process.

Author : Akito Okada,Sam Bamkin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811920769

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Japan’s School Curriculum for the 2020s by Akito Okada,Sam Bamkin Pdf

Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Yuto Kitamura,Toshiyuki Omomo,Masaaki Katsuno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.