In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese "quality education", McVeigh investigates the consequences of what happens when statistical and corporatist forces monopolize the purpose of schooling and the boundary between education and employment is blurred.
In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese "quality education", McVeigh investigates the consequences of what happens when statistical and corporatist forces monopolize the purpose of schooling and the boundary between education and employment is blurred.
Brian J. McVeigh Brian J. McVeigh received his PhD in anthropology from Princeton University, USA and is now training in mental health counseling at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. The author of twelve books, his latest publications include Nationalisms of Japan: Managing and Mystifying Identity (2003), Interpreting Japan: Approaches and Applications for the Classroom (2014), and How Religion Evolved: Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments (2016).
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List of Tables Figures and Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Potemkin Factor 2. Myths Mendacity and Methodology 3. State Nation Capital and Examinations: The Shattering of Knowledge 4. Gazing and Guiding: Japan's Education-Examination Regime 5. Schooling for Silence: The Sociopsychology of Student Apathy 6. Japanese Higher Education as Simulated Schooling 7. Self-Orientalism Through Occidentalism: How English and Foreigners Nationalize Japanese Students 8. Playing Dumb: Students Who Pretend Not to Know 9. Lessons Learned in Higher Education 10. The Price of Simulated Schooling and Reform Appendix A: Statistics of Japanese Education Appendix B: Other Types of Postsecondary Schools in Japan Appendix C: Modes of Institutional Operation and Simulation References Index
List of Tables Figures and Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Potemkin Factor 2. Myths Mendacity and Methodology 3. State Nation Capital and Examinations: The Shattering of Knowledge 4. Gazing and Guiding: Japan's Education-Examination Regime 5. Schooling for Silence: The Sociopsychology of Student Apathy 6. Japanese Higher Education as Simulated Schooling 7. Self-Orientalism Through Occidentalism: How English and Foreigners Nationalize Japanese Students 8. Playing Dumb: Students Who Pretend Not to Know 9. Lessons Learned in Higher Education 10. The Price of Simulated Schooling and Reform Appendix A: Statistics of Japanese Education Appendix B: Other Types of Postsecondary Schools in Japan Appendix C: Modes of Institutional Operation and Simulation References Index
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