Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan (eBook, ePUB)

An Interactive Perspective
Redaktion: Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko; Boocock, Sarane; Okano, Kaori H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interplay between multicultural groups, including the majority Japanese, in the Japanese school system and will help us to understand changes occurring in contemporary Japanese society as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136953644
• Artikelnr.: 42509261

Autorenporträt

Ryoko Tsuneyoshi is a professor of comparative education at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo. Kaori H. Okano is an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. Sarane Spence Boocock is an emeritus professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: An interactive perspective in understanding minorities and
education Kaori H. Okano and Ryoko Tsuneyoshi Part 1 2. Long-existing
minorities and education Kaori H. Okano 3. The schooling of Buraku
children: Overcoming a legacy of stereotyping and discrimination Sarane
Boocock 4. Schooling and Identity in Okinawa: Okinawans and Amerasians in
Okinawa Naomi Noiri 5. Ethnic Koreans in Japanese schools: Shifting
boundaries and collaboration with other groups Kaori Okano Part II 6. The
"newcomers" and the Japanese society Ryoko Tsuneyoshi 7. The 'new'
foreigners and the social reconstruction of difference: The cultural
diversification of Japanese education Ryoko Tsuneyoshi 8. Schools,
communities, and newcomer children: A case study of a public housing
complex Mutsumi Shimizu 9.(Mis)Managing diversity in non-metropolitan
public schools: The lack of state-sponsored support for 'newcomer' children
Chris Burgess 10. The Kikokushijo: Negotiating boundaries within and
without Misako Nukaga and Ryoko Tsuneyoshi 11. Concluding remarks:
Implications for educational research and reform Sarane Boocock