TITLE: |
Japan's high schools / Thomas P. Rohlen. |
AUTHOR: |
Rohlen, Thomas P. |
PUBLISHED: |
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1983. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
NOTES: |
"Published under the auspices of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley"--Page [ii]. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-349) and index. |
NOTES: |
Five high schools -- History -- University entrance exams: a national obsession -- The social ecology of high schools -- Space and time -- Organization -- Politics -- Instruction -- The adolescent pattern. |
NOTES: |
Offering a treatment of schools as 'moral communities, ' the author calls for new, culturally sensitive definitions of moral and creative goals in children's education. He uses education as the entering wedge for a good understanding of Japanese society in general. |
SUBJECT: |
High schools--Japan. |
SUBJECT: |
Education, Secondary--Japan. |
SUBJECT: |
Educational sociology --Japan. |
SUBJECT: |
Educational anthropology --Japan. |
SUBJECT: |
EŽcoles secondaires --Japon. |
SUBJECT: |
Anthropologie et eŽducation --Japon. |
SUBJECT: |
Education, Secondary. |
SUBJECT: |
Educational anthropology. |
SUBJECT: |
Educational sociology. |
SUBJECT: |
High schools. |
SUBJECT: |
Japan. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
University of California, Berkeley. Center for Japanese Studies. |