Japanese Lessons A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children

Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... --The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Benjamin, Gail R., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [1997]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Getting Started
  • 2. Why Study Japanese Education?
  • 3. Day-to-Day Routines
  • 4. Together at School, Together in Life
  • 5. A Working Vacation and Special Events
  • 6. The Three R's, Japanese Style
  • 7. The Rest of the Day
  • 8. Nagging, Preaching and Discussions
  • 9. Enlisting Mothers' Efforts
  • 10. Education in Japanese Society
  • 11. Themes and Suggestions
  • 12. Sayonam
  • Appendix. Reading and Writing in Japanese
  • References
  • Index