Takehiko Kariya

Education Reform and Social Class in Japan

The emerging incentive divide

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Produktbeschreibung

Until the early 1990s the Japanese education system was often commended for achieving outstanding outcomes. However, this book reveals growing educational inequality, with an increasing gap in the attainment and aspirations of students from different social backgrounds. By looking at class in close conjunction with developments in education in Japan, Takehiko Kariya is able to focus closely on current developments in Japanese society, and the underlying factors which are driving these. Translated into English for the first time, the Japanese language version of Education Reform and Social Class in Japan won the first Osaragi Jir¿ Prize for Commentary sponsored by the Asahi shinbun.

Produktdetails

• Routledge/University of Tokyo Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 233mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781138851771
• ISBN-10: 1138851779
• Artikelnr.: 42835028

Autorenporträt

Takehiko Kariya is Professor of the Sociology of Japanese Society at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The complex of class and education in a changing society 1. Education and social mobility in post
war Japan 2. The age of meritocracy 3. Meritocracy, ability orientation and 'discrimination' 3.1. The irony of egalitarianism in post
war Japan 3.2. A double standard of inequality and 'meritocratic discrimination' 4. Education Reform and Elite Education 5. Inequality of effort under the meritocracy 6. Pitfalls of the 'self
responsible society'
Is opportunity equal? 7. The structure of self
confidence
Educational inequality and self
esteem 8. The incentive divide
Selecting the society of the future 9. Afterword