Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age: The Japanese Approach

ISBN-13: 9780807764091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020

Takehiko Kariya; Jeremy Rappleye; Gita Steiner-Khamsi

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• Contents (Tentative)
• 1. Introduction: Rethinking Education and Equality in an Era of Inequality
• Toward a Global Meritocracy? A Brief History of an Ideal
• A Meritocratic Utopia? The Importance of Japan in the Discussion
• Purpose and Aims of the Book
• Outline of Chapters
• 2. The Japanese Story: Topography of Confrontation, Roots of the Problem
• The Story Begins: Why 1958?
• Why the Late 50s?
• The Meaning of 'Reverse Course'
• The Great 6-3 Experiment
• Excavating the Problem: Descending Beyond Left/Right Confrontation
• 3. The Traumatic Prewar Legacy and the Roots of the American Model
• Prewar Allocation of Education Resources
• How to Solve the Problem
• American Roots: the Scientific-Management Revolution
• Individualization of Learning and the Logic of Educational Finance
• 4. Drafting the Postwar Blueprint
• Beginning Again Postwar
• Postwar Demands
• World of Standard Means: the Japanese Approach to Equality
• 5. The Unknown Revolution: "Surface Equality"
• Educational Finance Trends and Interregional Inequalities
• The Silent Revolution': Homogenization of Educational Provision
• "Surface Equality": Towards Greater Homogenization
• 6. The Ambivalence of Standardization
• National Survey of Academic Achievement: A Reanalysis
• Connections to Achievement
• Surface Equality and Ambivalence: Homeroom, Collective Order, and Exam Competition
• 7. The Whereabouts of "Surface Equality" Today
• Dismantling the World of Standardization? Policy Reforms 1995–2010
• The Silent Growth of Inequalities
• The Ease of Understanding the Object of Critique
• Inflected Perspectives: The Optical Illusion of Individuality and Individualism
• 8. Conclusion: Drawing the Implications for a Global Age
• Japan in the Global Conversation: Still the Meritocracy Frontier?
• Revisiting Michael Young's Dystopia
• Education and Equality 30 Years after Neoliberalism
• References
• Index
• About the Authors