Research Catalog

Title

Teaching in Japan : a cultural perspective / Nobuo K. Shimahara.

Author

• 島原, 宣男.
• Shimahara, Nobuo.

Publication

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

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Details

Description

xiii, 174 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades. The collection explores day-to-day teaching in Japan from the teacher's perspective relying on first hand accounts by those within the system.

Series Statement

Reference books in international education ; 54

Uniform Title

Reference books in international education ; 54.

Subject

• Teachers > Training of > Japan
• Teachers > In-service training > Japan
• Educational change > Japan
• 81.31 teachers
• Educational change
• Teachers > In-service training
• Teachers > Training of
• Lehrerbildung
• Leerkrachten
• Inservicetraining
• Cultuur
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-166) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Teaching and Current Issues. Ch. 1. Introduction: The Background. Ch. 2. Culture of Teaching in Japan. Ch. 3. Teacher Education and Social Change. Ch. 4. Professional Development: Japanese Strategies -- pt. 2. Ethnography of Learning to Teach. Ch. 5. Learning to Teach in Japanese Schools / Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai. Ch. 6. Cultural Theory of Teaching and Practice / Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai. Ch. 7. Occupational Socialization of Beginning Teachers / Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai.

ISBN

• 0815335121
• 9780815335122

LCCN

2001031773

OCLC

• ocm47018443
• 47018443
• SCSB-1246383

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library