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Authors: Brian J. McVeigh
ISBN-13: 9780765609250, ISBN-10: 0765609258
Format: Paperback
Publisher: East Gate Book
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: New Edition
List of Tables, Figures, and Abbreviations | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Introduction: The Potemkin Factor | 3 |
2 | Myths, Mendacity, and Methodology | 19 |
3 | State, Nation, Capital, and Examinations: The Shattering of Knowledge | 45 |
4 | Gazing and Guiding: Japan's Education-Examination Regime | 77 |
5 | Schooling for Silence: The Sociopsychology of Student Apathy | 96 |
6 | Japanese Higher Education as Simulated Schooling | 123 |
7 | Self-Orientalism Through Occidentalism: How "English" and "Foreigners" Nationalize Japanese Students | 148 |
8 | "Playing Dumb": Students Who Pretend Not to Know | 180 |
9 | Lessons Learned in Higher Education | 215 |
10 | The Price of Simulated Schooling and "Reform" | 237 |
App. A | Statistics of Japanese Education | 261 |
App. B | Other Types of Postsecondary Schools in Japan | 269 |
App. C | Modes of Institutional Operation and Simulation | 271 |
References | 277 | |
Index | 295 |