Japanese Education

Author : Yasuhiro Nemoto
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Benjamin C. Duke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813544038

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The History of Modern Japanese Education by Benjamin C. Duke Pdf

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.

Author : Akiyoshi Yonezawa,Yuto Kitamura,Beverley Yamamoto,Tomoko Tokunaga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811315282

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Japanese Education in a Global Age by Akiyoshi Yonezawa,Yuto Kitamura,Beverley Yamamoto,Tomoko Tokunaga Pdf

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. Written primarily by members of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, it brings to light concerns and viewpoints that have grown out of the Japanese educational context. By focusing on uniquely Japanese educational research phenomena, the book offers international readers new insights and contributes to the international debate on education. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts.

Author : David Blake Willis,Jeremy Rappleye
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Edward R. Beauchamp,James M. Vardaman Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Author : June A. Gordon,Hidenori Fujita,Takehiko Kariya,Gerald LeTendre
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : UIUC:30112047014813

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A look at Japanese education today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary DeCoker,Christopher Bjork
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807772089

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Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization by Gary DeCoker,Christopher Bjork Pdf

This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nations economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most others sought to emulate due to its students performance on standardized tests. Now, however, a different and more complicated picture of the Japanese education system emerges. This book places Japanese education in a global context, with particular attention given to how their education system is responding to changing expectations and pressures that emerge from rapid social change. Chapters written by respected scholars examine issues related to equality, academic achievement, privatization, population diversity, societal expectations, and the influence of the media, parents, and political movements. The research in this book will provide valuable lessons for policymakers and practitioners facing similar challenges.

Author : Naoko Araki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463510592

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Diversity in Japanese Education by Naoko Araki Pdf

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. – Paulo Freire Diversity in Japanese Education explores ‘self-experience’ of individual learners and educators in Japan. The word ‘diversity’ is not limited to one’s ethnic background. Here, diversity refers to one’s pedagogical experiences and life experiences; to the norms, beliefs and values that impact such relations. These experiences and relations are fluid as they are shaped and reshaped in global and glocal settings. They are also reflected in praxis of English language learning and teaching in Japan. The authors’ educational backgrounds vary but they all share the common ground of being educators in Japan. Through being involved in learning and/or teaching English language in Japan, they have witnessed and experienced ‘diversity’ in their own pedagogical context. The book focuses on shifting critical and reflexive eyes on qualitative studies of pedagogical experiences rather than presenting one ‘fixed’ view of Japanese education.

Author : Thomas P. Rohlen,Christopher Bjork
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Akito Okada
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Edward R. Beauchamp,Richard Rubinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Yuto Kitamura,Toshiyuki Omomo,Masaaki Katsuno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Edward R. Beauchamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135648695

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Education and Schooling in Japan since 1945 by Edward R. Beauchamp Pdf

The best scholarship on the development of contemporary Japan This collection presents well over 100 scholarly articles on modern Japanese society, written by leading scholars in the field. These selections have been drawn from the most distinguished scholarly journals as well as from journals that are less well known among specialists; and the articles represent the best and most important scholarship on their particular topic. An understanding of the present through the lens of the past The field of modern Japan studies has grown steadily as Westerners have recognized the importance of Japan as a lading world economic force and an emerging regional power. The post-1945 economic success of the Japanese has, however, been achieved in the context of that nation's history, social structure, educational enterprise and political environment. It is impossible to understand the postwar economic miracle without an appreciation of these elements. Japan's economic emergence has brought about and in some cases, exacerbated already existing tensions, and these tensions have, in turn, had a significant impact on Japanese economic life. The series is designed to give readers a basic understanding of modern Japan-its institutions and its people-as we stand on the threshold of a new century, often referred to as the Pacific Century.

Author : Yuri Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.