Education in Japan A Comprehensive Analysis of Education Reforms and Practices /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kitamura, Yuto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Omomo, Toshiyuki (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Katsuno, Masaaki (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 47
• Subjects: International education .; Comparative education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; International and Comparative Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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...

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.