Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education (eBook, ePUB)

Insiders' Views into a Changing System
Redaktion: Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying to meet that challenge while placing the developments in a larger international context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317426615
• Artikelnr.: 49267977

Autorenporträt

Ryoko Tsuneyoshi is a professor of comparative education at the Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo. She is the present head of the secondary school attached to the Department of Education (2016-2017), and the former Director for the Center of Excellence in School Education (2013-2015). Ryoko Tsuneyoshi earned her Ph.D. at the Department of Sociology, Princeton University. She conducts cross-cultural comparisons of schooling through fieldwork, and she has also written extensively on multicultural issues. She was an executive board member of the Science Council of Japan, and is on the executive committee of the Intercultural Education Society of Japan and the Japan Educational Research Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Part I. Setting the Stage
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. "Exceptionalism" in Japanese education and its implications
Chapter 3. Japan's challenge in fostering global human resources: policy
debates and practices
Chapter 4. Global citizenship education in asia
Part II. Globalization and the multicultural challenge in Japan
Chapter 5. From high school abroad to college in Japan: The difficulties of
the Japanese returnee experience
Chapter 6. Breaking in or dropping out?: filipina immigrant girls
envisioning alternative lives in a globalized world
Chapter 7. Transition from university to work in Japan: Approaching
expectations of international students
Part III. Case studies in meeting the global and multicultural challenge
Chapter 8. The University of Tokyo PEAK program : Venues into the
challenges faced by Japanese universities
Chapter 9. Developing human resource for multicultural coexistence society:
A case study of gunma university-gunma prefecture cooperation project
"multicultural community advancement officers certificate program"
Part IV. The issues revisited
Chapter 10. Why does cultural diversity matter? Korean higher education in
comparative perspective
Chapter 11. Globalization or anglicization?: A dilemma of English language
teaching in Japan
Chapter 12. Japanese schooling and the global and multicultural challenge:
Globalization from below
Index