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Imperial subjects as global citizens : nationalism, internationalism, and education in Japan / Mark Lincicome.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lincicome, Mark Elwood, 1953-
- Series:
- AsiaWorld
- Asia world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state--Japan.
- Education and state.
- Japan.
- Nationalism and education--Japan.
- Nationalism and education.
- International education--Japan.
- International education.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 193 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]
- Summary:
- Mark Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japenese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization sine the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the argument-put forward by education officials, conservative politicians, and their supporters in the academy and the business world-that history offers no guide for addressing the educational challenges that face contemporary Japan.
- Combining diachronic and synchronic approaches, Lincicome analyzes repeated attempts throughout the twentieth century to "internationalize education" (kyoiku no kokusaika) in Japan. This comparison reveals important similarities that transcend educational policy to encompass Japanese conceptions of individual, national, and international identity; relations between the individual, the nation, the state, and the international community; and the type of education best suited to negotiating multiple identities among the next generation of Japanese subject-citizens.
- Contents:
- Reconsidering the Meiji legacy
- The great war, international education, and the politics of peace
- Japan's imperial internationalism
- Educating Japanese citizens of the world and the problem of history since 1945.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739131138
- 0739131133
- 9780739131145
- 0739131141
- 9780739131152
- 073913115X
- OCLC:
- 263065391
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