Japanese Lessons : : A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children / / Gail R. Benjamin.
Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... --The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Why Study Japanese Education?
- 3. Day-to-Day Routines
- 4. Together at School, Together in Life
- 5. A Working Vacation and Special Events
- 6. The Three R's, Japanese Style
- 7. The Rest of the Day
- 8. Nagging, Preaching and Discussions
- 9. Enlisting Mothers' Efforts
- 10. Education in Japanese Society
- 11. Themes and Suggestions
- 12. Sayonam
- Appendix. Reading and Writing in Japanese
- References
- Index