An Empire of Schools - Japan's Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite (Hardcover, New)

Based on in-depth analysis, extensive interviews, and a journalist's keen insight, An Empire of Schools provides a new framework to explore the misunderstandings that have arisen between Japan and the United States. The vital determining issue that complicates U.S.-Sino communications, Cutts says, is not the cultural incompatibilities of the people or economies but the fact that all Japanese leaders emerge from the same educational treadmill or "cartels of the mind". This revered system, crowned by five national and private universities, and from which almost all Japanese leaders emerge, teaches its students that they are inherently incapable of sharing their values, civic or personal, with those of any other civilization. Describing an educational system that has been left fundamentally unchanged since the Meiji Empire, Cutts depicts the elites who graduate from the system, describes what ethical philosophy is imparted to those graduates, and warns of the dangers of nationalist elitism that arise from the system. Filled with personal anecdotes as well as critical interviews, An Empire of Schools traces the potential consequences to Japan and the Pacific Rim of an educational system that begins imparting an elitist doctrine in kindergarten that extends to the highest levels of Japanese government.

General

Imprint:	M.E.Sharpe
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Robert Cutts
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-56324-843-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	1-56324-843-3
Barcode:	9781563248436

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