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Teachers and Politics in Japan

Author : Donald R. Thurston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871433
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Teachers and Politics in Japan written by Donald R. Thurston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politics. It is especially significant as a radical group operating both within and outside the political system and in direct conflict with conservative government policies in education and other areas of domestic and foreign policy. Donald R. Thurston's descriptive and analytic study of this most controversial labor union reveals a great deal about Japan's educational and political systems, and about the teaching profession in Japan and its relations with government and the community. It will therefore be of great interest both to political scientists and to those interested in comparative education. The purpose of this broad cross-sectional case study of the Japan Teachers' Union was to find out how much influence it has had on its own members and on the formulation and implementation of educational policies. The conclusion is that the union is much more influential at the local level where educational policies are implemented, and changed in the process of implementation, than at the national level where policy is formulated. It also shows that the Japan Teachers' Union has changed teachers' attitudes towards their roles, and that although the JTU is attached to the left-wing Japan Socialist Party, it is much more autonomous than has been thought. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan

Author : Mark Lincicome
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864018
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan written by Mark Lincicome and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With few exceptions, however, Western approaches to the subject treat education as an instrument of change controlled by the Meiji political and intellectual elite. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan offers a corrective to this view. By introducing primary source materials (including teaching manuals, educational periodicals, and primary school textbooks) missing from most English-language works, Mark Lincicome examines an early case of resistance to government control that developed within the community of professional educators. He focuses on what began, in 1872, as an attempt by the newly established Ministry of Education to train a corps of professional teachers that could "civilize and enlighten" the masses in compulsory primary schools. Through the Tokyo Normal School and other new teacher training schools sponsored by the government, the ministry began what it thought was a straightforward "technology transfer" of the latest teaching methods and materials from the United States and Europe. Little did the ministry realize that it was planting the seeds of broader reform that would challenge not only its underlying doctrine of education, but its very authority over education. The reform movement centered around efforts to explicate and disseminate the doctrine of kaihatsushugi (developmental education). Hailed as a modern, scientific approach to child education, it rejected rote memorization and passive learning, elements of the so-called method of "pouring in" (chunyu) knowledge practiced during thepreceding Tokugawa period, and sought instead to cultivate the unique, innate abilities of each child. Orthodox ideas of "education", "knowledge", and the process by which children learn were challenged. The position and responsibilities of the teacher were enhanced, consequently providing educators with a claim to professional authority and autonomy - at a time when the Meiji state was attempting to control every facet of the Japanese school system. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan analyzes a key element to understanding Meiji development and modern Japan as a whole.

Teachers' Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan

Author : Robert W. Aspinall
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450505
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Teachers' Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan written by Robert W. Aspinall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Japan's powerful teachers' unions, including an in-depth look at the schism of the largest union in 1989.

Japanese Schooling

Author : James J. Shields
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038195
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Schooling written by James J. Shields and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization

Author : Gary DeCoker
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807772089
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization written by Gary DeCoker and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nations economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most others sought to emulate due to its students performance on standardized tests. Now, however, a different and more complicated picture of the Japanese education system emerges. This book places Japanese education in a global context, with particular attention given to how their education system is responding to changing expectations and pressures that emerge from rapid social change. Chapters written by respected scholars examine issues related to equality, academic achievement, privatization, population diversity, societal expectations, and the influence of the media, parents, and political movements. The research in this book will provide valuable lessons for policymakers and practitioners facing similar challenges.

Learning To Be Modern

Author : Byron Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429967829
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Learning To Be Modern written by Byron Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the political discourse and conflict that have surrounded Japanese education, this book focuses on the three main issues of central versus local control, elitism versus equality, and nationalism versus universalism.

Teachers' Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan

Author : Robert W. Aspinall
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450499
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Teachers' Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan by : Robert W. Aspinall

Download or read book Teachers' Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan written by Robert W. Aspinall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Japan's powerful teachers' unions, including an in-depth look at the schism of the largest union in 1989.

Unconditional Democracy

Author : Toshio Nishi
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817974428
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Unconditional Democracy written by Toshio Nishi and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difficult mission of a regime change: Toshio Nishi gives an account of how America converted the Japanese mindset from war to peace following World War II.

Education Reform in Japan

Author : Leonard James Schoppa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134865163
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Education Reform in Japan written by Leonard James Schoppa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese education system, while widely praised in western countries, is subject to heavy criticism within Japan. Education Reform in Japan analyses this criticism, and explains why proposed reforms have failed. The author shows how the Japanese policy-making process can become paralysed when there is disagreement, and argues that this `immobilism' can affect other areas of Japanese policy-making.

Education as a Political Issue in Japan

Author : Neil Kassell Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education as a Political Issue in Japan written by Neil Kassell Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

Author : Mayumi Ohara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351654489
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation written by Mayumi Ohara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged, who were school students at the time of the Occupation and who experienced first-hand this immense cultural change. The book considers the nature of the changing outlook, including democratization, the new role for the Japanese Emperor and all this represented for the place of tradition in Japanese life and the growing emphasis on individualism away from collectivism. It discusses the changing system of education itself, including new structures and new textbooks, and relates the feelings of the participants as they came to terms with defeat and the language and culture of the former enemy. Overall, the book provides a fascinating insight into a key period of Japanese history.

Education in Japan

Author : Yuto Kitamura
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811326320
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Education in Japan written by Yuto Kitamura and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the nature of Japan’s education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society. It describes the basic institutional structure of each educational stage, in an overview of today’s school education in Japan, while also analyzing the current implementation status of important policies and the progress of reform at each stage. The book also examines the status of and problems with various issues that are considered essential to education in Japan today. These include teachers, lesson studies, school and community, educational disparities, education and jobs, multiculturalism, university reforms, internationalization of education and English-language education, education for sustainable development, and others, covering a diverse range of fields. The book is unique in its attempt to comprehensively understand and analyze the educational field in Japan by drawing on the expertise of various academic disciplines.

The Politics of Structural Education Reform

Author : Keith A. Nitta
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415962501
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Structural Education Reform written by Keith A. Nitta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who will teach them, and how it will be paid for clearly rests with some mix of district, state, and national policymakers. This book seeks to show how global trends have produced similar changes to very different educational systems in the United States and Japan. Despite different historical development, social norms, and institutional structures, the U.S. and Japanese education systems have been restructured over the past dozen years, not just incrementally but in ways that have transformed traditional power arrangements. Based on 124 interviews, this book examines two restructuring episodes in U.S. education and two restructuring episodes in Japanese education. The four episodes reveal a similar politics of structural education reform that is driven by symbolic action and bureaucratic turf wars, which has ultimately hindered educational improvement in both countries.

Liberalism in Modern Japan

Author : Sharon Nolte
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520370902
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism in Modern Japan written by Sharon Nolte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Proliferating Talent

Author : Motoyama Yukihiko
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824818463
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Proliferating Talent written by Motoyama Yukihiko and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and diverse, Proliferating Talent challenges us to rethink a crucial period in Japanese history. The eight essays translated here broadly cover the eventful half century that witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the modern Japanese state to the position of an international power. Edited by J.S.A. Elisonas and Richard Rubinger, professors of East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University, Proliferating Talent is full of nuances and carefully textured readings in which local developments are carefully balanced against major national events.

Pressure Politics of the Japan Teachers Union

Author : Donald R. Thurston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Pressure Politics of the Japan Teachers Union written by Donald R. Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005

Author : Franziska Seraphim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174473
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005 written by Franziska Seraphim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon postwar democracy have shifted considerably—from social protest through high economic growth to Japan’s relations in Asia—and the meanings of the war shifted with them.This book unravels the political dynamics that governed the place of war memory in public life. Far from reconciling with the victims of Japanese imperialism, successive conservative administrations have left the memory of the war to representatives of special interests and citizen movements, all of whom used war memory to further their own interests.Franziska Seraphim traces the activism of five prominent civic organizations to examine the ways in which diverse organized memories have secured legitimate niches within the public sphere. The history of these domestic conflicts—over the commemoration of the war dead, the manipulation of national symbols, the teaching of history, or the articulation of relations with China and Korea—is crucial to the current discourse about apology and reconciliation in East Asia, and provides essential context for the global debate on war memory."