Author: Merry White
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029338018
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines the Japanese commitment to education, discusses the position of teachers and the structure of the school system, and looks at the cultural background of students.
The Japanese Educational Challenge
Author: Merry White
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029338018
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines the Japanese commitment to education, discusses the position of teachers and the structure of the school system, and looks at the cultural background of students.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029338018
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines the Japanese commitment to education, discusses the position of teachers and the structure of the school system, and looks at the cultural background of students.
The Japanese Educational Challenge
Author: Merry I. White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Japanese Challenge
Author: Herman Kahn
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Challenges to Japanese Education
Author: June A. Gordon
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807770698
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807770698
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.
British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914–1941
Author: A. Best
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023028728X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023028728X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.
Language Policy in Japan
Author: Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139504797
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Over the last thirty years, two social developments have occurred that have led to a need for change in language policy in Japan. One is the increase in the number of migrants needing opportunities to learn Japanese as a second language, the other is the influence of electronic technologies on the way Japanese is written. This book looks at the impact of these developments on linguistic behaviour and language management and policy, and at the role of language ideology in the way they have been addressed. Immigration-induced demographic changes confront long cherished notions of national monolingualism and technological advances in electronic text production have led to textual practices with ramifications for script use and for literacy in general. The book will be welcomed by researchers and professionals in language policy and management and by those working in Japanese Studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139504797
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Over the last thirty years, two social developments have occurred that have led to a need for change in language policy in Japan. One is the increase in the number of migrants needing opportunities to learn Japanese as a second language, the other is the influence of electronic technologies on the way Japanese is written. This book looks at the impact of these developments on linguistic behaviour and language management and policy, and at the role of language ideology in the way they have been addressed. Immigration-induced demographic changes confront long cherished notions of national monolingualism and technological advances in electronic text production have led to textual practices with ramifications for script use and for literacy in general. The book will be welcomed by researchers and professionals in language policy and management and by those working in Japanese Studies.
The Japanese Education System
Author: Yasuhiro Nemoto
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 9781581127997
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 9781581127997
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education
Author: William K. Cummings
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432839
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Provides specific examples of Asian educational practice that may have relevance to the United States.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432839
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Provides specific examples of Asian educational practice that may have relevance to the United States.
Science Education Research and Practice from Japan
Author: Tetsuo Isozaki
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811627460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book project poses a major challenge to Japanese science education researchers in order to disseminate research findings on and to work towards maintaining the strength and nature of Japanese science education. It also presents a unique opportunity to initiate change and/or develop science education research in Japan. It provides some historical reasons essential to Japanese students’ success in international science tests such as TIMSS and PISA. Also, it helps to tap the potential of younger generation of science education researchers by introducing them to methods and designs in the research practice.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811627460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book project poses a major challenge to Japanese science education researchers in order to disseminate research findings on and to work towards maintaining the strength and nature of Japanese science education. It also presents a unique opportunity to initiate change and/or develop science education research in Japan. It provides some historical reasons essential to Japanese students’ success in international science tests such as TIMSS and PISA. Also, it helps to tap the potential of younger generation of science education researchers by introducing them to methods and designs in the research practice.
Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization
Author: Gary DeCoker
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807754234
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
EDUCATION / Comparative
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807754234
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
EDUCATION / Comparative