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1 online resource (274 pages) |
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| Contents |
Getting started -- Why study Japanese education? -- Day-to-day routines -- Together at school, together in life -- A working vacation and special events -- The three R's, Japanese style -- The rest of the day -- Nagging, preaching, and discussions -- Enlisting mothers' efforts -- Education in Japanese society -- Themes and suggestions -- Sayonara. |
| Summary |
Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one ... -- The New York Times Book Review. Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Gail.
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Benjamin, Gail. |
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Comparative education.
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Comparative education. |
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Elementary schools -- Japan -- Urawa-shi -- Sociological aspects.
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Elementary schools. |
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Japan -- Urawa-shi. |
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American students -- Japan.
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American students. |
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Japan. |
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Students, Foreign -- Japan.
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Students, Foreign. |
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Education, Elementary -- Japan -- Urawa-shi.
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Education, Elementary. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Benjamin, Gail R. Japanese Lessons : A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 9780814712917 |
| ISBN |
9780814786123 (electronic book) |
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081478612X (electronic book) |
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