The Japanese High School : Silence and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415154390 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 312 str.

Shoko Yoneyama

Opis

Japan's education system, like it's economy, was long seen in Japan and elsewhere as the model of efficiency, discipline and high standards. In recent years, however, the model has collapsed. Classroom pressures mount, and incidents of bullying, suicide, dropout, and violence of one kind or another proliferate. The growing sense of educational crisis came to a head with the 1997 incident in which a child was murdered and decapitated, apparently by a fourteen-year-old student. When the child killer of Kobe claimed that he had been avenging himself against school which threatened his existence, many students were reported to have expressed understanding and support for his views. For large numbers of school students in Japan, school has become a battle field. What is going on in the Japanese education system, and among its students? What does the crisis in the education system signify for the country's troubled economic and political systems? This book describes the Japanese high school as experienced by the students themselves.

Recenzje

'I recommend this book for reading by everyone who hopes to understand what Japan will be capable of achieving through its education system in the 21st century.' - Katalin Ferber, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture

'This is a book I have been waiting for - as a teacher as well as a scholar - for a long time.' - Japanese Studies, Vol 20, No.1, 2000

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Japanese Students in Crisis  2. Methodology and Comparative Problems  Part 1: Control: The Structure of Silence  3. Student-Teacher Relationship: The Alienation Paradigm  4. Discipline and Punish  5. School Rules: The Web of Regimentation  6. Study: Competition and Meaninglessness  Part 2: Responses: Conformity and Resistance  7. Ijime The Price of Super Conformity  8. Tokokyohi Burnout and Resistance  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Shoko Yoneyama is Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.