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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Individuals, autonomy, and society in Japanese education -- Reshaping reform : discipline, autonomy, and group relations -- Classes, clubs, and control -- Mass games and dreams of youth -- Changing the classroom? : autonomy and expression in Japanese language and literature -- The challenges and trials of curricular change -- To graduation and beyond : high school entrance and juku. |
| Summary |
Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book, Peter Cave explores these reforms as they have played out at the junior high level, the most intense pressure point in the Japanese system, a time when students prepare for the high school entrance exams that will largely determine their educational trajectories and future livelihoods. Cave examines the implementation of "relaxed education" reforms that attempted to promote individual autonomy and free thinking in Japanese classrooms. As he shows, however, these policies were eventually transformed by educators and school administrators into curricula and approaches that actually promoted social integration over individuality, an effect opposite to the reforms' intended purpose. With vivid detail, he offers the voices of teachers, students, and parents to show what happens when national education policies run up against long-held beliefs and practices, and what their complex and conflicted interactions say about the production of self and community in education. The result is a fascinating analysis of a turbulent era in Japanese education that offers lessons for educational practitioners in any country. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Junior high schools -- Social aspects -- Japan.
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Junior high schools. |
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Social aspects. |
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Japan. |
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Japanese -- Education (Elementary)
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Japanese. |
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Education, Elementary. |
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Educational change -- Japan.
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Educational change. |
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EDUCATION -- Secondary. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cave, Peter, 1965- Schooling selves : autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education. Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, ©2016 viii, 287 pages 9780226367729 |
| ISBN |
9780226368054 (electronic book) |
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022636805X (electronic book) |
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9780226367729 |
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022636772X |
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9780226367866 |
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022636786X |
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