Name: Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
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Author: Peter Cave
ISBN: 9780226367866

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Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

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Physical Book

Publisher

Univ Of Chicago Pr

Author

Peter Cave

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

296

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780226367866

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Synopsis "Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education "

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, the most intense pressure point in the Japanese system, a time when students prepare for the high school entrance exams that will largely determine their educational trajectories and future livelihoods. Cave examines the implementation of “relaxed education” reforms that attempted to promote individual autonomy and free thinking in Japanese classrooms. As he shows, however, these policies were eventually transformed by educators and school administrators into curricula and approaches that actually promoted social integration over individuality, an effect opposite to the reforms’ intended purpose. 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. The result is a fascinating analysis of a turbulent era in Japanese education that offers lessons for educational practitioners in any country.

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