US-based scholars of education and social sciences of whom one grew up in Japan and two in China discuss Japanese education as a construction of American projections, and demonstrate new, more sophisticated, and more nuanced research in the field.
US-based scholars of education and social sciences of whom one grew up in Japan and two in China discuss Japanese education as a construction of American projections, and demonstrate new, more sophisticated, and more nuanced research in the field.
"Education in Contemporary Japan examines the main developments of modern schooling in Japan, from the beginning of the Meiji era up to the present, and includes analysis of the most recent reforms. By drawing extensively on detailed ethnographic studies and interviews with stud…
The Japanese take education very seriously. They see economic success and social wellbeing as intimately tied-up with such provision. Perhaps no other country can equal the level of commitment of the Japanese to education. This book explores the development of such attitudes, th…
An encouragement of learning
by Fukuzawa, Yukichi, Dilworth, David A., Nishikawa, Shunsaku
An Encouragement of Learning
by Fukuzawa, Yukichi, Dilworth, David A.
fromEBL-Schweitzer
The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872?1876) as a series of pamphlets as he completed his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). Closely linked, the two texts illustrate the core tenets of Fuku…
The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872?1876) as a series of pamphlets as he completed his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). Closely linked, the two texts illustrate the core tenets of Fuku…