Brian J. Mcveigh

Japanese Higher Education as Myth (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 317
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317467038
• Artikelnr.: 42508157

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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