Society Schools And Progress In Japan

Author : Tetsuya Kobayashi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483136226

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Society, Schools, and Progress in Japan by Tetsuya Kobayashi Pdf

Society, Schools, and Progress in Japan introduces the reader to some of the major features of national education in Japan, with emphasis on the role of schools in society and in promoting progress. The principles of national education are discussed, along with the contribution of education to economic development. Comprised of eight chapters, this book begins with a historical background on Japanese education from early times to about 1950. The next chapter explains the establishment of statutory principles of national education in Japan in a historical and socio-political context, and examines the problems connected with the aims of national education which have been under the influence of statutory provisions and various other factors in Japanese society. The question of controlling national education in Japan is then considered, paying particular attention to the machinery for policy formation in national education; the systems of educational administration both at the central and local levels; and the dispute arising from the centralization of the control of national education. The book concludes by assessing future prospects for Japanese education, including planning, implementing, and financing educational reform. This monograph will be of interest to students, teachers, sociologists, school administrators, and educational policymakers.

Author : William K. Cummings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Yuto Kitamura,Toshiyuki Omomo,Masaaki Katsuno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : James J. Shields
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780271038193

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Japanese Schooling by James J. Shields Pdf

Author : Chiu-Sam Tsang
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483136806

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Society, Schools & Progress in China by Chiu-Sam Tsang Pdf

Society, Schools and Progress in China presents the systematic use of education to achieve prosperity, security, and social well-being. This book provides a concise account of the historical events and the social, religious, political, and other influences, which have combined to create China. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of China's historical background to understand the struggle and aspirations of the Chinese people. This text then examines the type of economic and social structure in China's rural areas since 1958, which has been known as the ""People's Commune"". Other chapters consider the social, technological, and international change in China. This book discusses as well the establishment of the educational system in the People's Republic of China. The final chapter deals with the characteristics of the Chinese society. This book is intended to be suitable for students of sociology, government and politics, as well as education.

Author : June A. Gordon,Hidenori Fujita,Takehiko Kariya,Gerald LeTendre
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Yuto Kitamura,Toshiyuki Omomo,Masaaki Katsuno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811326312

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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 : Thomas P. Rohlen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520341302

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Japan's High Schools by Thomas P. Rohlen Pdf

". . . Rohlen's book achieves exciting conjectural stances while providing us with rich and trustworthy substantive data and description. His treatment of schools as 'moral communities,' his call for new, culturally sensitive definitions of moral and creative goals in children's education, his interest in the consensus between parent, school, and society which underlies effective schooling are reason alone why this book should be read by anyone interested in the context and future of any educational system ... A splendid book for non-specialists, as well as for policymakers ... "--Merry T. White, The Review of Education "Rohlen uses education as the entering wedge for a good understanding of Japanese society in general. That the author was sensitive to and appreciative of Japanese ways is evident throughout."--Eloise Lee Leiterman, Christian Science Monitor "Never have I encountered a work on modem Japan which so skillfully captures what is intrinsically unique about the society. Indeed, Rohlen proves that comparative education need not be a litany of lifeless facts."--Linda Joffe, London Times Educational Supplement "On the basis of fourteen months of fieldwork in five Japanese high schools, the author integrates observation of the schools themselves with discussion of their relationships to higher education and society at large. . . . Rowen's conclusions offer insightful contributions to the current debate on secondary education in the United States."--Harvard Educational Review "The best introduction for many a year into the cultural mainsprings of Japanese society, the principles of its organization, and the way its citizens think and feel."--Ronald P. Dore, Journal of Japanese Studies

Author : Kaori H. Okano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Herbert Passin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500368215

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Society and Education in Japan by Herbert Passin Pdf

Author : Kaori Okano,Motonori Tsuchiya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521626862

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Education in Contemporary Japan by Kaori Okano,Motonori Tsuchiya Pdf

A balanced introduction to and examination of contemporary Japanese education. While the postwar system of schooling has provided valuable ingredients for economic success, it has been accompanied by unfavourable developments such as excessively competitive exams, stifling uniformity, bullying, and an undervaluing of non-Japanese ethnicity. This book offers up-to-date information and new perspectives on schooling in contemporary Japanese society, and uses detailed ethnographic studies and interviews with students and teachers. It examines the main developments of modern schooling in Japan, from the beginning of the Meiji era up to the present, and includes analysis of the most recent reforms. It develops a new picture of the role that schooling plays for individuals and the wider society. Essential reading for students and educators alike.

Author : Yasuhiro Nemoto
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Akito Okada
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Byron Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429967825

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Learning To Be Modern by Byron Marshall Pdf

Emphasizing the political discourse and conflict that have surrounded Japanese education, this book focuses on the three main issues of central versus local control, elitism versus equality, and nationalism versus universalism.