ABSTRACT
For large numbers of school students in Japan school has become a battle field. Recent violent events in schools, together with increasing drop-out rates and bullying are undermining stereotypes about the effectiveness of the Japanese education system. This incisive and original book looks at Japanese high school from a student perspective and contextualises this educational turmoil within the broader picture of Japans troubled economic and political life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Japanese students in crisis
chapter |40 pages
Methodology and comparative problems
part |96 pages
Control: the structure of silence
chapter |30 pages
Student–teacher relationships: the alienation paradigm
chapter |28 pages
Discipline and punishment: dehumanisation
chapter |14 pages
School rules: the web of regimentation
chapter |22 pages
Achievement pressure and the meaning of study
part |96 pages
Responses: conformity and resistance