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Education Reform and Social Class in Japan - The emerging incentive divide (Paperback)
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Education Reform and Social Class in Japan - The emerging incentive divide (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/University of Tokyo Series
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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 Jiro 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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