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  title info:
    title: Education in Japan
    sub title: A Comprehensive Analysis of Education Reforms and Practices
  name:
    name part: Kitamura, Yuto.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Omomo, Toshiyuki.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Katsuno, Masaaki.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 241 p. 23 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book illustrates the nature of Japan's education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society. It describes the basic institutional structure of each educational stage, in an overview of today's school education in Japan, while also analyzing the current implementation status of important policies and the progress of reform at each stage. The book also examines the status of and problems with various issues that are considered essential to education in Japan today. These include teachers, lesson studies, school and community, educational disparities, education and jobs, multiculturalism, university reforms, internationalization of education and English-language education, education for sustainable development, and others, covering a diverse range of fields. The book is unique in its attempt to comprehensively understand and analyze the educational field in Japan by drawing on the expertise of various academic disciplines.
  table of contents: 1 Background and context of education system in Japan -- Part 1 The education system in Japan -- 2 Primary and Secondary Education -- 3 Higher education in Japan: Its uniqueness and historical development -- 4 Restructuring of social education and lifelong learning, and community governance -- 5 National and local educational administration -- Part 2 Educational issues in Japan -- 6 The relationship between teachers' working conditions and teacher quality -- 7 Lesson study -- 8 Teacher narrative description -- 9 A history of schools and local communities in modern Japan -- 10 Background of "Individualised Meritocracy" among Japanese youth: Social circulation model of post-war Japan and its collapse -- 11 Discussing the "Multicultural" in Japanese society -- 12 Higher education reform: Focusing on national university reform -- 13 English language teaching and learning in Japan: History and prospect -- 14 Safety education from the perspective of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) -- Postscript: Toward education that truly enhances people's wellbeing.
  note: edited by Yuto Kitamura, Toshiyuki Omomo, Masaaki Katsuno.
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  classification: LB43
  classification: 370.116
  classification: 370.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 47
  identifier: 9789811326325
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2632-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 190109
    record change date: 20191027051224.0
    record identifier: 978-981-13-2632-5