For two decadesfrom the late 1980s onwardsthe world of Japanese compulsory education was shaken by reform. In this ethnography of two Japanese junior high schools Peter Cave examines how reform discourses and policy measures played out within lower secondary education in this contentious period, and why the reforms were so radically reshaped as they were implemented in schools. Further, it explores the significance of these processes for our understanding of contemporary Japan. What do junior high schools responses to ...
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For two decadesfrom the late 1980s onwardsthe world of Japanese compulsory education was shaken by reform. In this ethnography of two Japanese junior high schools Peter Cave examines how reform discourses and policy measures played out within lower secondary education in this contentious period, and why the reforms were so radically reshaped as they were implemented in schools. Further, it explores the significance of these processes for our understanding of contemporary Japan. What do junior high schools responses to reform tell us about self and society in today s Japan? How have the changes and challenges of Japan s last twenty years been reflected, transmuted, or resisted in schools? What kinds of people are Japanese junior high schools seeking to produce, and what practices have they used to this end? This book explores how teachers reinterpreted, reshaped, and resisted reforms, and examines why proposals that seemed so promising ran into such difficulties in classrooms and staffrooms. Cave also reveals how to make the most of Japanese groupism while also advancing individualization. While it is not easy, he does in the end think it is possible to support individual autonomy rather than produce disciplined individuals who are always subordinate to the social whole."
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