Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

by Peter Cave

Book Overview

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book, Peter Cave explores these reforms as they have played out at the junior high level, the most intense pressure point in the Japanese system, a time when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022636786X
• ISBN13: 9780226367866
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"