Moving mountains : Japanese education reform
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Moving mountains : Japanese education reform
(Acta jutlandica, 73,
Aarhus University Press, c1998
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Library of Education, National Institute for Educational Policy Research
: pbk379.52||28012100033
Note
"Originally a PhD thesis submitted in 1994"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-262) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Japanese educational system is admired and envied for its success in providing a well-educated population and contributing to the spectacular post-War industrialisation and modernisation of the nation. It is also criticised for inhibiting creativity and spontaneity, seen as crucial talents in the forthcoming information age. Moving Mountains is based on two propositions: that the educational system is undergoing a number of changes, despite charges to the contrary, and that there is a conflict between the rhetoric of the National Council on Education Reform undertaken by Prime Minister Nakasone (1982-1987) and its emphasis on issues like internationalism vis-a-vis the national and economic needs as defined by the politicians.
Table of Contents
- Introduction and Theoretical Deliberations
- Analysis of the Rhetoric
- Educational Ideology in Japan
- Structure
- The Japanese Education System 1868-1984
- The History of the Educational system
- The Present System
- The Debate on Reform
- NCER and its Function in the Educational Debate
- Teachers' Organisations -- History and Position
- Other Opposition Groups
- Industry
- Attitudes to NCER's Proposals
- The New Curriculum Guidelines
- Individuality
- Life Long Learning
- Internationalisation
- The Information Society
- Index.
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