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Challenges to Japanese education : economics, reform, and human rights
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- Creator
- edited by June A. Gordon ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Teachers College Press ; Yokohama-shi, Japan : Seori-shobo, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807750537, 0807750530
- OCLC
- ocn429750132
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Views from the Japanese side: challenges to Japanese education / Takehiko Kariya -- Policy, finance, and national reform. Whither Japanese schooling? Educational reforms and their impact on ability formation and educational opportunity / Hidenori Fujita -- The end of egalitarian education in Japan? The effects of policy changes in resource distribution on compulsory education / Educational stratification: teacher perspectives on school culture and the college entrance examination / Mamoru Tsukada -- Educational selection, career decisions, and school support: the case of an urban commercial high school / Akira Sakai -- Educational inequalities and marginalized groups. Invisible racism in Japan: impact on academic achievement of minority children / Yoshiro Nabeshima -- Schooling of Buraku women: life histories in eastern Japan / Haruhiko Kanegae -- The education of Zainichi Koreans and their identity / Taeyoung Kim -- The education of minorities in Japan: voices of Amerasians in Okinawa / Naomi Noiri -- Reflections on forces affecting the future of Japanese eduction. Challenges to Japanese education: concluding thoughts / Goerge A. DeVos -- Societal and cultural context of educational issues / Harumi Befu -- A new policy context for schooling in Japan / June A. Gorodn, Gerald LeTendre