1st Edition
Learning To Be Modern Japanese Political Discourse On Education
By Byron Marshall
Copyright 1994
340 Pages
by
Routledge
Emphasizing the political discourse and conflict that have surrounded Japanese education, this book focuses on the three main issues of central versus local control, elitism versus equality, and nationalism versus universalism.
New Perspectives on Asian History -- -- Preface -- Introduction -- Clarifying Loyalty and Filial Piety: 1800-1850s -- Knowledge from Throughout the World: The Reforms of the 1870s -- Assimilating the Elements: 1879-1905 -- To Liberate Education from Bureaucratic Control: 1905-1931 -- Mobilizing the Spirit of the Nation: 1931-1945 -- Stamping out the Bad, Stamping in the New: 1945-1950 -- Warfare Waged Between the Entrenched: 1950-1969 -- The Challenge of a New Era: 1970-1989 -- Our National Identity as Japanese: Post-Shōwa Japan -- About the Book and Author
Biography
Byron Marshall