Global interest in Japanese education and industrial training has grown steadily in the last 20 years. Japanese education and training is fundamental to the highly developed meritocratic system of employment, promotion and social status upon which Japan's economic success relies. Systems of education in Japan are intensive, highly competitive, and produce a generally superior level of educational achievement comparative to Japan's global competitors. This collection represents a cross-section of research and thought on key topics in the study of these systems, such as: the contribution of...
Global interest in Japanese education and industrial training has grown steadily in the last 20 years. Japanese education and training is fundamental ...
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and CentralAuthority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia.
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and CentralAuthority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explore...
Decentralization and Education: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions examines the specific ways in which decentralization policies have affected the structure and delivery of education in eleven Asian nations. Written by top scholars in the field, the case studies provide detailed and rich empirical evidence documenting the tensions as well as synchronisms between the ideas that form the basis of decentralization policy and the contexts into which they are introduced. The high quality of this collection of essays and the careful attention to local contexts for implementation will...
Decentralization and Education: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions examines the specific ways in which decentralization policies have a...
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia.
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that cl...
This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nation's economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most others sought to emulate due to its students' performance on standardised tests. Now, however, a much different and more complicated picture of the Japanese education system emerges.
This book places Japanese education in a global context, with particular attention given to how their education system is responding to changing expectations and pressures that emerge from rapid social change....
This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nation's economic bubble. Before the r...
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to education: Japan has been doing it for decades. Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, he sheds light on the best path forward for US schools. Bjork asks a variety of important...
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates sur...
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to education: Japan has been doing it for decades. Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, he sheds light on the best path forward for US schools. Bjork asks a variety of important...
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates sur...
