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The strange child : education and the psychology of patriotism in recessionary Japan / Andrea Gevurtz Arai.
Van Pelt Library LC191.8.J3 A72 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arai, Andrea, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Social aspects--Japan.
- Education.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Recessions.
- Social aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Japan.
- Education--Japan--Psychological aspects.
- Patriotism--Japan.
- Patriotism.
- National characteristics, Japanese.
- Recessions--Social aspects--Japan.
- Japan--Social conditions--1989-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- In The Strange Child, Andrea Arai narrates the social and cultural dislocation that erupted in Japan after the 1990s economic downturn, uncovering the deep interconnection between the child as a figure of national progress and the Japanese modernity project. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the strange child, education, neoliberal patriotism
- Historical crossings and recessionary effects
- The Ministry of Education and the Youth A incident
- Frontiers within
- Collapsing classrooms
- The cram school industry in the age of recession
- The recessionary generation : times and spaces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804797078
- 0804797072
- 9780804798532
- 0804798532
- OCLC:
- 927618757
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