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Author Horio, Teruhisa, 1933-

Title Educational thought and ideology in modern Japan : state authority and intellectual freedom / Teruhisa Horio ; edited and translated by Steven Platzer.

Publication Info. [Tokyo] : University of Tokyo Press, [1988]
©1988

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 Moore Stacks  LC94.J3 H6 1988    Available  ---
Description xxvi, 410 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 402-404.
Contents The crisis in Japanese education today -- pt. 1. The intellectual legacy of Japan's educational history. The ideological conflict over cholarship and education during the Meiji Enlightenment ; Education and human cultivation in the emperor state ; Democratizing education and liberating the Japanese spirit ; Education and law in postwar Japan : The problem of continuity and change -- pt. 2. Education in the courtroom and teachers' struggles for professional autonomy. Textbook control on trial : The Sugimoto decision ; Textbook authors on trial : The Takatsu decision ; The ministry of education's scholastic achievement test : Economic growth and the destruction of education ; The structure of educational authority : A critique of the Supreme Court's ruling in the scholastic achievement test case ; The struggle to control teachers' in-service training ; Student evaluation and personal control : The Naishinsho decision -- pt. 3. Individualism and egalitarianism in Japanese education : Myths and realities. Equality and individuality in education : Towards a reformation of democratic values ; The ideology of ability-first and the distortion of meritocracy ; Conflicting approaches to the reform of Japanese schooling : Economic liberalization versus educational liberation -- Appendix I : The imperial rescript on education (1890) -- Appendix II : The fundamental law of education (1947).
Note Includes index.
Subject Education and state -- Japan.
Education and state.
Japan.
Education -- Japan -- History -- 1945-
Education.
History.
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject Academic freedom -- Japan.
Academic freedom.
Added Author Platzer, Steven.
ISBN 4130570757
0860083527