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Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan (Hardcover)
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Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
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Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan critically examines
an aspect of education that has received little attention to date:
intentional teaching and learning activities that occur outside
formal schooling. In the last two decades nonformal education has
rapidly increased in extent and significance. This is because
individual needs for education have become so diverse and rapidly
changing that formal education alone is unable to satisfy them.
Increasingly diverse demands on education resulted from a
combination of transnational migration, heightened human rights
awareness, the aging population, and competition in the globalised
labour market. Some in the private sector saw this situation as a
business opportunity. Others in the civil society volunteered to
assist the vulnerable. The rise in nonformal education has also
been facilitated by national policy developments since the 1990s.
Drawing on case studies, this book illuminates a diverse range of
nonformal education activities; and suggests that the nature of the
relationship between nonformal education and mainstream schooling
has changed. Not only have the two sectors become more
interdependent, but the formal education sector increasingly
acknowledges nonformal education's important and necessary roles.
These changes signal a significant departure from the past in the
overall functioning of Japanese education. The case studies
include: neighbourhood homework clubs for migrant children,
community-based literacy classes, after-school care programs, sport
clubs, alternative schools for long-term absent students, schools
for foreigners, training in intercultural competence at
universities and corporations, kominkan (community halls), and
lifelong learning for the seniors. This book will appeal to both
scholars of Japanese Studies/Asian Studies, and those of
comparative education and sociology/anthropology of education.
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