Schooling selves : autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education / Peter Cave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cave, Peter, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Junior high schools--Social aspects--Japan.

Junior high schools.

Japanese--Education (Elementary).

Japanese.

Educational change--Japan.

Educational change.

Education, Elementary.

Social aspects.

Japan.

Physical Description:

ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Summary:

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book, Peter Cave explores these reforms as they have played out at the junior high level, a time when students prepare for the high school entrance exams that will largely determine their educational trajectories and future livelihoods. With vivid detail, he offers the voices of teachers, students, and parents to show what happens when national education policies run up against long-held beliefs and practices, and what their complex and conflicted interactions say about the production of self and community in education. Book jacket.

Contents:

Individuals, autonomy, and society in Japanese education

Reshaping reform : discipline, autonomy, and group relations

Classes, clubs, and control

Mass games and dreams of youth

Changing the classroom? : autonomy and expression in Japanese language and literature

The challenges and trials of curricular change

To graduation and beyond : high school entrance and juku.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226367729

022636772X

9780226367866

022636786X

OCLC:

920017282