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Japanese higher education as myth

Title: Japanese higher education as myth / Brian J. McVeigh.
Author: McVeigh, Brian J.
Publication: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2002.

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Description

xiii, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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History

Note

"An East gate book."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the Potëmkin factor -- Myths, mendacity, and methodology -- State, nation, capital, and examinations: the shattering of knowledge -- Gazing and guiding: Japan's educatio-examination regime -- Schooling for science: the sociopsychology of student apathy -- Japanese higher education as simulated schooling -- Self-orientalism through occidentalism: how "english" and"foreigners" nationalize Japanese students -- "Playing dumb": students who pretend not to know -- Lessons learned in higher education -- The price of simulated schooling and "reform."

ISBN

076560924X
9780765609243
0765609258
9780765609250

LCCN

2001049908

OCLC

ocm48056942
48056942
SCSB-8899554

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library