Japanese education in a global age : sociological reflections and future directions /: sociological reflections and future directions. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Yuto Kitamura, Beverley Yamamoto, Tomoko Tokunaga, editors.
• Editors: Yonezawa, Akiyoshi, 1965-; Kitamura, Yuto; Yamamoto, Beverley; Tokunaga, Tomoko
• Contents: 1 Japanese Educationin a Global Age: An Introduction -- Part I How have Japan's Education Policies been Discussed by Social Scientists? -- 2 A Comparative Perspective of Attitudes toward Educational Inequality -- 3 Universal Participation in School Education as a Historical Process in Modern Japan -- 4 Borrowings, Modernity, and De-Axialization: Rethinking the Educational Research Agenda for a Global Age -- Part II What Contemporary Challenges is Japan's Education Facing? -- 5 Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Education: From Gender Disparity to Intersectional and Multiple Gender/Sexualities -- 6 School-to-Work Transitions for Japanese Youth in a Globalized Era -- 7 Are Children who do not go to School "Bad", "Sick", or "Happy"?: Shifting Interpretations of Long-Term School Non-Attendance in Postwar Japan -- 8 Sociological Studies on Universities in Japan: Focusing on the Academic Profession -- 9 Growing up in Multicultural Japan: Diversifying Educational Experiences of Immigrant Students -- 10 The Growing Influence of Political Leadership on Teacher Education: Radical POlicy Reforms in the Absence of Opposition Forces -- 11 Learning Opportunities since the Great Earthquake of 2011 -- 12 (Column 1) New Pathways to Economic Participation? Youth, Labor Policy and Entrepreneurship in Japan -- Part III How does Japan's Sociology of Education go beyond the National Boundary? -- 13 Internationalization of Japanese Higher Education: Incremental Change in a Dynamic Global Environment -- 14 Beyond National Frameworks: Patterns and Trends in Articles in Japanese Researchers published in International Journals of Sociology of Education and related Fields since the 1990s -- 15 Achievements and Future Challenges in Japan's Sociology of Education: Sociologization, Pedagogization, and Resociologization -- 16 (Column 2) East Asian Networks in the Sociology of Education -- 17 Meritocracy and Modernity, and the Completion of Catch-up: Problems and Paradoxes.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4320952; Education; Education -- Social aspects -- Japan; Education and globalization -- Japan -- Cross-cultural studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Education and globalization; Education -- Social aspects; Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Education; Educational strategies & policy; Education -- Comparative; Japan; Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811315282; 9811315280
• Related ISBNs: 9789811315275; 9811315272
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 9, 2018).
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