Educational progressivism, cultural encounters and reform in Japan
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Educational progressivism, cultural encounters and reform in Japan
(Progressive education : policy, politics and practice, 1)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  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
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Contributors: Kie Fujiwara, Masayuki Haga, Ayako Kawaji, Naoshi Kira, Akira Nakano, Kanae Nishioka, Hiroyuki Sakuma
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for progressivism and reform, this book re-evaluates the history of Japanese education to help inform ongoing and future debates about education policy and practice worldwide.
With contributions from Japanese scholars specialising in the history and philosophy of education and curriculum studies, chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, 'life education', the creative arts and writing, and education for girls and women. The book examines Western influences, including John Dewey, Carleton Washburne and A. S. Neill, as well as Japan's own progressive exports, such as holistic Zenjin education, Children's Villages and Lesson Study, highlighting cultural encounters and progressive initiatives at both transnational and national levels. The chapters reflect on historical and political background, motivations, influences and the impact of Japanese progressive education. They also stimulate, through argument and critical discussion, a continuing discourse concerning principles, policy, politics and practices of education in an increasingly globalised society.
A rigorous and critical study of the history of progressive education in Japan, this book will interest an international readership of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of progressive education, comparative education, social and cultural history, history of education, Japanese studies, curriculum studies, and the history of childhood.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Progressivism, New Education, and cultural encounters
Yoko Yamasaki
1. Origins and outline of progressive education in Japan
Yoko Yamasaki
2. Integrated Learning: Takeji Kinoshita and Nara-jo Fusho
Hiroyuki Kuno
3. Heiji Oikawa: Group-based dynamic teaching and curriculum reconstruction
Kie Fujiwara
4. Free drawing and art education: Kanae Yamamoto and Bunka Gakuin
Masayuki Haga
5. Nurturing truly free individuals through self-governing life: Motoko Hani's Jiyu Gakuen
Naoshi Kira
6. Kuniyoshi Obara's Zenjin education at Tamagawa Gakuen
Hiroyuki Sakuma
7. 'Daily life writing' in school: Creating alternative textbooks and culture
Ayako Kawaji
8. Satoru Umene: Curriculum reform and the world history of education
Akira Nakano and Yoko Yamasaki
9. Hama Omura's Unit learning practice for Japanese classes
Kanae Nishioka
10. Kinokuni Children's Village School: Theory and practice from Dewey to Neill and Aitkenhead
Yoko Yamasaki
11. Japanese New Education and continuing cultural encounters
Hiroyuki Kuno
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