Education and social justice in Japan / Kaori H. Okano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okano, Kaori, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge critical studies in Asian education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Japan.

Education.

Social justice.

Japan.

Social justice--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Kaori H. Okano is Professor of Asian/Japanese Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her publications include Education in Contemporary Japan (1999, with M. Tsuchiya), Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan (2012, with R. Tsuneyoshi & S. Boocock), Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan (2016), Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood (2009), School to Work Transition in Japan (1993), Rethinking Japanese Studies (2018, with Y. Sugimoto), and Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan (2018, with C. Maree).

Contents:

History of schooling: always learning

Directions and drivers of change: reforms in transition

Culturally and linguistically diverse minoritized social groups

Childhood poverty, gender gap and regional variations

The politics of shokuiku, and compulsory school lunch

Nonformal education for school-aged children: supplementary and alternative.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Okano, Kaori, 1959- Education and social justice in Japan

ISBN:

9781315814094

1315814099

9781317803447

1317803442

9781317803454

1317803450

9781317803461

1317803469

Publisher Number:

40030324428

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.