Keywords:
American students -- Japan
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Benjamin, Gail
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Comparative education
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Education, Elementary -- Japan -- Urawa-shi
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Elementary schools -- Japan -- Urawa -- Sociological aspects
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Students, Foreign -- Japan
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... -- The New York Times Book Review. Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (274 p.)
ISBN:
9780814712917
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=866210
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=866210
DDC:
372.952
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Getting Started; 2 Why Study Japanese Education?; 3 Day-to-Day Routines; 4 Together at School, Together in Life; 5 A Working Vacation and Special Events; 6 The Three R's, Japanese Style; 7 The Rest of the Day; 8 Nagging, Preaching and Discussions; 9 Enlisting Mothers' Efforts; 10 Education in Japanese Society; 11 Themes and Suggestions; 12 Sayonara; Appendix: Reading and Writing in Japanese; References; Index;
