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Author Yoneyama, Shoko.

Title The Japanese high school : silence and resistance / Shoko Yoneyama.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 287 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-276) and indexes.
Contents 1. Japanese students in crisis -- 2. Methodology and comparative problems -- pt. 1. Control: the structure of silence -- 3. Student-teacher relationships: the alienation paradigm -- 4. Discipline and punishment: dehumanisation -- 5. School rules: the web of regimentation -- 6. Achievement pressure and the meaning of study -- pt. 2. Responses: conformity and resistance -- 7. Ijime: the price of super-conformity -- 8. Tōkōkyohi: burnout and resistance.
Summary This book describes the Japanese high school as experiencd by the students themselves: a perspective which has largely been ignored until now.
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Subject Education, Secondary -- Japan.
Education, Secondary.
Japan.
Education, Secondary -- Australia.
Australia.
High school students -- Japan -- Attitudes.
High school students.
High school students -- Australia -- Attitudes.
Teacher-student relationships -- Japan.
Teacher-student relationships.
Teacher-student relationships -- Australia.
Educational sociology -- Japan.
Educational sociology.
Educational change -- Japan.
Educational change.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Yoneyama, Shoko. Japanese high school. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415154391 (DLC) 98042020 (OCoLC)39868173
ISBN 0203170792 (electronic book)
9780203170793 (electronic book)
0203013603 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780203013601 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
0415154391 (hardback)