Lifelong learning in neoliberal Japan : risk, community, and knowledge / Akihiro Ogawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogawa, Akihiro, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continuing education--Japan.

Continuing education.

Neoliberalism--Japan.

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan's recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan's policymakers, and statistics find one-third of Japanese people engaged in some form of these activities. Activities that increase abilities and improve health help manage the insecurity that comes with Japan's new economic order and increased income disparity. Ogawa notes that the state attempts to integrate the divided and polarized Japanese population through a newly imagined collectivity, atarashii kōkyō or the New Public Commons, a concept that attempts to redefine the boundaries of moral responsibility between the state and the individual, with greater emphasis on the virtues of self-regulation. He discusses the history of lifelong learning in Japan, grassroots efforts to create an entrepreneurial self, community schools that also function as centers for problem solving, vocational education, and career education.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Why Lifelong Learning Now?; Lifelong Learning as a Global Trend; Risk: An Analytical Tool; Risk: A Japanese Context; Methods; Overview of Chapters; Chapter 2 Japan's Lifelong Learning: History, Policies, and Practices; Three Key Terms; Social Education; Lifelong Education; Lifelong Learning; Lifelong Learning Promotion Law; Lifelong Learning Council Report in 1992; Focus on the Local: Developments in the 1990's; Chapter 3 Risk Management by a Neoliberal State; Lifelong Learning and Risk; Japan's Lifelong Learning in the 2000's

"Comprehensive Knowledge" Local Communities: Locations for Realizing the New Public Commons; Neoliberal Knowledge; Chapter 4 The New Public Commons; The New Public Commons; The Bunka Borantia; Civic Knowledge; "Entrepreneurial Self " for Constructing Civic Knowledge; Jukugi (Due Deliberation); Real Jukugi; New Public Commons as a New Growth Strategy; Chapter 5 The Japanese "Community School"; Revival of Communication; The Japanese "Community School" System; Ikiru Chikara (Zest for Living); Integrating School Education and Social Education; A Varied Landscape

Chapter 6 Becoming a Social Entrepreneur Why Don't You Initiate a New Style of Working?; Vocational Training in Japan; After the Lehman Shock; The Knowledge and Skills Required to Support the New Public Commons; Becoming a Social Entrepreneur: A Challenging Opportunity; Taking Risks to Survive in the New Labor Market; Postscript; Chapter 7 New Knowledge for Youth; Suicide among Young People; "Career Education"; Changing Trends in Universities; Toward Social Inclusion; Developing Citizens; Afterword; Appendix; Appendix 1. Japan's Lifelong Learning in the 2000's

Appendix 2. Major Legal and Policy Developments of Japan's Lifelong Learning (1947-2011) Appendix 3. List of Civic Knowledge Sources; Mission; Management; Continuity and Sustainability; Bonding; Networking; Volunteering; Coordination; Partnership; Notes; Japanese Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438457888

143845788X

OCLC:

928386838