Takehiko Kariya - Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide

Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...72

Education Reform and Social Class in Japan

Until the early 1990s, Japanese education was widely commended for achieving outstanding outcomes in global comparison. At the same time, it was frequently criticized for failing to cultivate individuality and creativity in students. Wide-ranging education reforms were enacted during the 1990s to remedy these perceived failings. However, as this book argues, the reforms produced a different outcome than intended, contributing to growing disparity in learning motivation and educational aspiration of students from different class backgrounds instead.

Takehiko Kariya demonstrates by way of empirical sociological analysis that educational inequality in Japan has been expanding, and that a new mechanism of educational selection has begun to operate, which he calls the incentive divide. Casting light on recent changes in Japanese society to critically reassess educational policy choices, this books quantitative and qualitative analyses of the mass education society in post-war Japan offer important insights also for understanding similar problems faced in other parts of the world at present.

Translated into English for the first time, the Japanese language version of Education Reform and Social Class in Japan was awarded the first Osaragi Jiro Prize for Commentary sponsored by the Asahi shinbun . This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of Asian studies, Japanese studies, education, sociology and social policy.

Takehiko Kariya is Professor of the Sociology of Japanese Society at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK.

Routledge/University of Tokyo series

Series Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief:

Masashi Haneda

Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

Associate Editors:

Jun Furuya, Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Shinsaku Iwahara, Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

Hiroshi Mitani, Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Sh?go Takegawa, Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo

Ry?ko Tsuneyoshi, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo

Susumu Yamakage, Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo

Managing Editor:

Michael Burtscher, Associate Professor, Division of International Affairs and Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

1 Koizumi and Japanese Politics
Yu Uchiyama

2 Social Security in Contemporary Japan
A comparative analysis Mari ?sawa

3 Education Reform and Social Class in Japan
The emerging incentive divide Takehiko Kariya

Education Reform and Social Class in Japan

The emerging incentive divide

Takehiko Kariya and Michael Burtscher

Translation edited by Michael Burtscher

First published 2013

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Gro businesup, an informas

2013 The University of Tokyo

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

The right of Takehiko Kariya to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright1, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Kariya, Takehiko, 1955
Education reform and social class in Japan / Takehiko Kariya.
p. cm. (Routledge/university of tokyo series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. EducationJapan. 2. Educational changeJapan. 3. EducationSocial aspectsJapan. 4. EducationJapanHistory. 5. JapanSocial conditions. I. Title.
LA1312.K344 2013
370.951dc23 2012024823

p. cm. (Routledge/university of tokyo series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. EducationJapan. 2. Educational changeJapan. 3. EducationSocial

aspectsJapan. 4. EducationJapanHistory. 5. JapanSocial

conditions. I. Title.

LA1312.K344 2013

370.951dc23 2012024823

ISBN: 978-0-415-55687-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-07699-6 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

Contents

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Figures

I.1
I.2
I.3
I.4
1.1
1.2
3.2.1	High school enrolment rates (national average and students in Buraku districts)
3.2.2	Severity of home life and test scores (accuracy rates).
3.2.3	Path analysis for students test scores (second grade in middle school).
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
3.2.4

Tables

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.2.1	Average test scores of middle school students in C city
3.2.2	Logistic regression analysis for scholastic achievement (second year students at general middle schools)
4.1
4.2
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
7.9
7.10
7.11
8.1
8.2
5.7.1
5.7.2

Editorial note

This book is a slightly revised and updated translation of the authors Kaiska Nihon to kyiku kiki: fubyd saiseisan kara iyoku kakusa shakai (insentibu dibaido) e , first published by Yshind in 2001. The translation of this book was funded by the University of Tokyo in the framework of its English-Language Monograph Publications Programme.

Next page

1234567...72

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide»

Look at similar books to Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Leslie L. Marsh

The Middle Class in Emerging Societies: Consumers, Lifestyles and Markets

Joseph A. Balogun

Healthcare Education in Nigeria: Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms

David S. Awbrey

A Journalists Education in the Classroom: The Challenge of School Reform

Howard Gillette

Class Divide: Yale 64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

Bin Wu

Chinese Higher Education Reform and Social Justice

Alisa Gaunder

Political Reform in Japan: Leadership Looming Large

Mike Howarth

Britains Educational Reform: A Comparison With Japan

Pilar OCadiz

Education And Democracy: Paulo Freire, Social Movements, And Educational Reform In Sao Paulo

Massimo Ragnedda

The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities

Kosaka

Social Stratification In Japan

David Chiavacci

Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-Emerging from Invisibility

Vilson

This is not a test : a new narrative on race, class, and education

Discussion, reviews of the book Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.