1st Edition

Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan An Interactive Perspective

Edited By Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Kaori H. Okano, Sarane Boocock Copyright 2011
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The contributors focus on interactions between individuals and among groups representing diverse cultural... Read more

 

Biography

Ryoko Tsuneyoshi is a professor of comparative education at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo.

Kaori H. Okano is an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia.

Sarane Spence Boocock is an emeritus professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.