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.
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Education and state. |
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Japan. |
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Education -- Japan -- History -- 1945-
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Education. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
1945- |
Subject |
Academic freedom -- Japan.
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Academic freedom. |
Added Author |
Platzer, Steven.
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ISBN |
4130570757 |
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0860083527 |
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