Until the early 1990s, Japanese education was widely commended
for achieving outstanding outcomes in global comparison. At the
same time, it was frequently criticized for failing to cultivate
'individuality' and 'creativity' in students. Wide-ranging
education reforms were enacted during the 1990s to remedy these
perceived failings. However, as this book argues, the reforms
produced a different outcome than intended, contributing to growing
disparity in learning motivation and educational aspiration of
students from different class backgrounds instead.
Takehiko Kariya demonstrates by way of empirical sociological
analysis that educational inequality in Japan has been expanding,
and that a new mechanism of educational selection has begun to
operate, which he calls the 'incentive divide'. Casting light on
recent changes in Japanese society to critically reassess
educational policy choices, this book's quantitative and
qualitative analyses of the 'mass education society' in post-war
Japan offer important insights also for understanding similar
problems faced in other parts of the world at present.
Translated into English for the first time, the Japanese
language version of "Education Reform and Social Class in Japan
"won the first Osaragi Jir Prize for Commentary sponsored by the
"Asahi shinbun." This book will be of interest to students and
scholars in the fields of Asian studies, Japanese studies,
education, sociology and social policy.
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