Globalization and Japanese "exceptionalism" in education : insiders' views into a changing system
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Globalization and Japanese "exceptionalism" in education : insiders' views into a changing system
(Routledge research in international and comparative education)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying to meet that challenge while placing the developments in a larger international context. Distinguishing itself from other books in the same genre, this volume (1) brings in the diversity of insiders' reactions concerning globalization reform in education, while placing such actions in the larger international context, and (2) covers a wide span of education (elementary to higher education) and shows how the globalization reforms as a whole are affecting Japanese education. With a focus on insiders' accounts, this book brings in information that is little known outside of Japan. It also links globalization processes in Japanese society, school education and higher education, accounting for similarities and differences across educational levels, providing insight into the multifaceted processes affecting the Japanese education system.
Chapters include:
From High School Abroad to College in Japan: The Difficulties of the Japanese Returnee Experience
The University of Tokyo PEAK Program: Venues into the Challenges Faced by Japanese Universities
Why Does Cultural Diversity Matter? Korean Higher Education in Comparative Perspective
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Part I. Setting the Stage
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. "Exceptionalism" in Japanese education and its implications
Chapter 3. Japan's challenge in fostering global human resources: policy debates and practices
Chapter 4. Global citizenship education in asia
Part II. Globalization and the multicultural challenge in Japan
Chapter 5. From high school abroad to college in Japan: The difficulties of the Japanese returnee experience
Chapter 6. Breaking in or dropping out?: filipina immigrant girls envisioning alternative lives in a globalized world
Chapter 7. Transition from university to work in Japan: Approaching expectations of international students
Part III. Case studies in meeting the global and multicultural challenge
Chapter 8. The University of Tokyo PEAK program : Venues into the challenges faced by Japanese universities
Chapter 9. Developing human resource for multicultural coexistence society: A case study of gunma university-gunma prefecture cooperation project "multicultural community advancement officers certificate program"
Part IV. The issues revisited
Chapter 10. Why does cultural diversity matter? Korean higher education in comparative perspective
Chapter 11. Globalization or anglicization?: A dilemma of English language teaching in Japan
Chapter 12. Japanese schooling and the global and multicultural challenge: Globalization from below
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"