1st Edition

English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation Politics and Pedagogy

By Mayumi Ohara, John Buchanan Copyright 2018
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged, who were school students at the time of the Occupation and who experienced first-hand this immense... Read more

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Abbreviations



PART 1: Context



Chapter 1 The Scope of this Book



Chapter 2 Setting the Scene



PART 2: Historical Background



Chapter 3 History of Foreign Language Education in Japan



Chapter 4 Exploring the Historical Literature (1)



Chapter 5 Exploring the Historical Literature (2)



Chapter 6 Data Sources, Collection and Analysis



PART 3: Interviews and Their Implications



Chapter 7 The Interviews: What We Learned



Chapter 8 Concluding Thoughts



Appendix A Examples of Publications



Appendix B School Systems



Appendix C Lists of Japanese Names Translated into English



Appendix D The Locations of the Middle Level Schools Attended by Participants (Except for Yoko) as well as Other Places Referred in the Book.



Appendix E Summary of Warfare Between the Manchurian Incident and the Pacific War



Appendix F Political Occurrences and the Periods of the Participants’ Middle-level Schooling



Appendix G The Numbers of English Majors in Hiroshima Arts and Sciences University and Hiroshima Higher Normal School



Appendix H Employment of Foreign Teachers



Appendix I Information on the Participants (Age Order)



Appendix J Sample Interview Questions



Appendix K The Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan



Glossary



Bibliography



Index







 

Biography

Mayumi Ohara obtained her doctorate at the University of Technology Sydney.



 



John Buchanan is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Technology Sydney.