Challenges to Japanese Education
Economics, Reform, and Human Rights

June A. Gordon (Edited by), Hidenori Fujita (Edited by), Takehiko Kariya (Edited by), Gerald LeTendre (Edited by)

9780807750537

Paperback / softback, published 12 January 2010

224 pages, illustrations
22.6 x 15.4 x 1.7 cm, 0.325 kg

In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. Travelling from Japan to engage in a unique forum at the University of California, they joined eminent professors Befu, DeVos, and Rohlen to bring over fifty leading scholars up to date on the global challenges facing Japan and how education has and will play into the reformulation of its identity. Chapters examine such topics as education policy changes, the education of minorities, including the Burakumin, the hegemony of college entrance examinations, social mobility and basic human rights, increased economic competition and global migration, political influences on educational reform, and the future of Japanese education.