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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McVeigh, Brian J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2002.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Education, Higher > Japan > History > 21st century.
Enseignement supérieur > Japon > Histoire > 21e siècle.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education, Higher.
Höheres Bildungswesen
Hoger onderwijs.
Higher education > Japan > History > 21st Century.
Japan.
Japan
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Potëmkin factor
  • Myths, mendacity, and methodology
  • State, nation, capital, and examinations: the shattering of knowledge
  • Gazing and guiding: Japan's educatio-examination regime
  • Schooling for science: the sociopsychology of student apathy
  • Japanese higher education as simulated schooling
  • Self-orientalism through occidentalism: how "english" and"foreigners" nationalize Japanese students
  • "Playing dumb": students who pretend not to know
  • Lessons learned in higher education
  • The price of simulated schooling and "reform."

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