Windows on Japanese Education

Herausgeber: Beauchamp, Edward R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fact that Japanese students consistently outperform other nationalities on international tests of educational achievement has made the Japanese educational system a leading topic for media attention and evaluative study. This volume is a collection of essays by Japanese and American scholars in the field of Japanese education that presents a current systematic overview of this system, its strengths, and its weaknesses. Topics ranging from the history of Japanese education and its recent reform campaign to the methods used to teach preschoolers and elementary students, women, teachers, and engineers are the primary focus of this study. Each contributor writes both within his or her own specialty and with a view to those political, social, and economic factors that affect the Japanese educational climate. A look to the future of Japanese higher education, as well as guidelines that can benefit educational systems in other countries, conclude the work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780313262432
• ISBN-10: 0313262438
• Artikelnr.: 21328236

Autorenporträt

EDWARD R. BEAUCHAMP is Professor of Historical and Comparative Studies in Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan, Learning to Be Japanese, and Dissertations in the History of Education, as well as articles in the History of Education Quarterly. Dr. Beauchamp co-edited Educational Policies in Crisis: Japanese and American Perspectives (Praeger, 1986), Education in Japan: A Sourcebook, and Foreign Employees in 19th Century Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Historical Context of Japanese Education to 1945 by Mark
Lincicome The Development of Japanese Educational Policy, 1945-1985 by
Edward R. Beauchamp Education Reform in Japan: Goals and Results of the
Recent Reform Campaign by Leonard Schoppa Financing Japanese Education by
Ichikawa Shogo The Japanese Preschool System by Sarane Spence Boocock Task
Persistence in Japanese Elementary Schools by Priscilla N. Blinco Teaching
of Mathematics in Japanese Schools by Nancy C. Whitman Japan's Science and
Engineering Pipeline: Structure, Policies, and Trends by William K.
Cummings The Contribution of Education to Japan's Economic Growth by Robert
Evans, Jr. The Education of Women in Japan by Kumiko Fujimura-Fansrlow and
Anne E. Imamura Teacher Education in Japan by Shimahara Nobuo The Role of
Education in Preserving the Ethnic Identity of Korean Residents in Japan by
Umakoshi Toru "Examination Hell" by Peter Frost The Future of Japanese
Higher Education by Kitamura Kazuyuki Postscript: What Can We Learn from
Japan? by Edward R. Beauchamp Index