Tsuneyoshi Globalization and Japanese "Exceptionalism" in Education

Insider's Views into a Changing System
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-42661-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. 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. Distinguishing itself from other books in the same genre, this volume (1) brings in the diversity of insiders‘ reactions concerning globalization reform in education, while placing such actions in the larger international context, and (2) covers a wide span of education (elementary to higher education) and shows how the globalization reforms as a whole are affecting Japanese education. With a focus on insiders’ accounts, this book brings in information that is little known outside of Japan. It also links globalization processes in Japanese society, school education and higher education, accounting for similarities and differences across educational levels, providing insight into the multifaceted processes affecting the Japanese education system.

Chapters include:

- From High School Abroad to College in Japan: The Difficulties of the Japanese Returnee Experience

- The University of Tokyo PEAK Program: Venues into the Challenges Faced by Japanese Universities

- Why Does Cultural Diversity Matter? Korean Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Section I. Setting the Stage

Chapter 1. Introduction (Ryoko Tsuneyoshi and Yuto Kitamura)

Chapter 2. "Exceptionalism" in Japanese Education and Its Implications (Ryoko Tsuneyoshi)

Chapter 3. Japan’s Challenge in Fostering Global Human Resources: Policy Debates and Practices (Akiyoshi Yonezawa & Yukiko Shimmi)

Chapter 4. Global Citizenship Education in Asia (Yuto Kitamura)

Section II. Globalization and the Multicultural Challenge in Japan Common theme: the assumption of homogeneity and the multicultural challenge brought about by globalization, for whom the existing system has worked and why, etc.

Chapter 5. From High School Abroad to College in Japan: The Difficulties of the Japanese Returnee Experience (Yoriko Ida)

Chapter 6. Breaking In or Dropping Out?: The Voice of Filipino Female Students in Japanese Schools (Tomoko Tokunaga)

Chapter 7. From College to Work in Japan: Diverging Expectations of Foreign Students and Japanese Companies (Tan, Chun-yi)

Section 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 (Yujin Yaguchi)

Chapter 9. Local Government and University Efforts to Educate Multicultural Citizens: A Case Study of the Gunma University Multicultural Coexistence Certificate Program (Yuki Megumi)

Section IV. The Issues Revisited

Chapter 10. Why Does Cultural Diversity Matter? Korean Higher Education in Comparative Perspective (Gi-Wook Shin and Rennie J. Moon)

Chapter 11. Globalization or Anglicization?: A Dilemma of English Language Teaching in Japan (Yoshifumi Saito)

Chapter 12. Japanese Schooling and the Global and Multicultural Challenge: Globalization from Below (Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Fumiko, Takahashi, Hideki Ito, Lee Seulbi, Maiko Sumino, Tate Kihara, Satsuki Kubodera, and Hikaru Ishiwata)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.