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Japanese schooling : patterns of socialization, equality, and political control
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Japanese schooling : patterns of socialization, equality, and political control

Author: James J Shields
Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1989.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James J Shields
ISBN: 0271006587 : 9780271006581
OCLC Number: 18382827
Description: 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / James J. Shields, Jr. -- Gambaru : a Japanese cultural theory of learning / John Singleton -- Interdependence of family and education : reactions of foreign wives of Japanese to the school system / Anne E. Imamura -- Cooperation and control in Japanese nursery schools / Catherine C. Lewis -- Japanese preschools : academic or nonacademic? / Gary DeCoker -- Class size and student-teacher ratios in the Japanese preschool / Joseph Jay Tobin, David Y.H. Wu, and Dana H. Davidson -- Japan's group orientation in secondary schools / Hiroshi F. Iwama -- The Asian advantage : the case of mathematics / Harold W. Stevenson -- Introduction / James J. Shields, Jr. -- The dilemma of Japanese education today / Ikuo Amano -- A crisis of legitimacy in Japanese education : meritocracy and cohesiveness / Hidenori Fujita. The present climate in Japanese junior high schools / Kazuhiro Mochizuki -- Bullies in the classroom / Yoshio Murakami -- Public and private schools and educational opportunity in Japan / Gail R. Benjamin and Estelle James -- Women's participation in higher education in Japan / Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow -- Recent trends in special education in Tokyo / Marilyn P. Goldberg -- Educational problems of "returning children" / Tetsuya Kobayashi -- Educational demands and institutional response : dowa education in Japan / John N. Hawkins -- Introduction / James J. Shields, Jr.-- Continuity and change in mid-nineteenth-century Japanese education / Richard Rubinger -- State control and the evolution of ultranationalistic textbooks / Masami Yamazumi. Political teacher unionism in Japan / Haruo Ota -- Variations on Democratic education : divergent patterns in Japan and the United States / Benjamin C. Duke -- Japanese education reforms in the 1980s : a political commitment / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Works in English on Japanese education, 1970-1988 : a selected bibliography / James J. Shields, Jr.
Responsibility: edited by James J. Shields, Jr.

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