Kaori H. Okano (School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Aus

Education and Social Justice in Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this last two decades, Japan has experienced slow economic growth, changed employment practices, population decline, an aging society, and an increasingly multi-ethnic population resulting from migration. This book illuminates changing policies and cumulative adjustments in the daily practice of schooling.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780415832526
• ISBN-10: 0415832527
• Artikelnr.: 43680005

Autorenporträt

Kaori H. Okano is Professor of Asian/Japanese Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her publications include Education in Contemporary Japan (1999, with M. Tsuchiya), Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan (2012, with R. Tsuneyoshi & S. Boocock), Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan (2016), Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood (2009), School to Work Transition in Japan (1993), Rethinking Japanese Studies (2018, with Y. Sugimoto), and Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan (2018, with C. Maree).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. History of schooling: Always learning 3. Directions and
drivers of change: Reforms in transition 4. Culturally and linguistically
diverse minoritized social groups 5. Childhood poverty, gender gap and
regional variations 6. The politics of shokuiku, and compulsory school
lunch 7. Nonformal education for school-aged children: Supplementary and
alternative 8. Conclusions