Author : Hyunjoon Park
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN :
Re-evaluating Education in Japan and Korea
Hyunjoon Park
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Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea
Hyunjoon Park
Author : Hyunjoon Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : 9781138120235
International comparisons of student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading have consistently shown that Japanese and Korean students outperform their peers in other parts of world. Understandably, this has attracted many policymakers and researchers seeking to emulate this success, but it has also attracted strong criticism and a range of misconceptions of the Japanese and Korean education system. Directly challenging these misconceptions, which are prevalent in both academic and public discourses, this book seeks to provide a more nuanced view of the Japanese and Korean education systems. This includes the idea that the highly standardized means of education makes outstanding students mediocre; that the emphasis on memorization leads to a lack of creativity and independent thinking; that students' successes are a result of private supplementary education; and that the Japanese and Korean education systems are homogenous to the point of being one single system. Using empirical data Hyunjoon Park re-evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the existing education systems in Japan and Korea and reveals whether the issues detailed above are real or unfounded and misinformed. Offering a balanced view of the evolving and complex nature of academic achievement among Japanese and Korean students, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian, international and comparative education, as well as those interested in Asian society more broadly.
Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea
Hyunjoon Park
Author : Hyunjoon Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134072945
International comparisons of student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading have consistently shown that Japanese and Korean students outperform their peers in other parts of world. Understandably, this has attracted many policymakers and researchers seeking to emulate this success, but it has also attracted strong criticism and a range of misconceptions of the Japanese and Korean education system. Directly challenging these misconceptions, which are prevalent in both academic and public discourses, this book seeks to provide a more nuanced view of the Japanese and Korean education systems. This includes the idea that the highly standardized means of education makes outstanding students mediocre; that the emphasis on memorization leads to a lack of creativity and independent thinking; that students’ successes are a result of private supplementary education; and that the Japanese and Korean education systems are homogenous to the point of being one single system. Using empirical data Hyunjoon Park re-evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the existing education systems in Japan and Korea and reveals whether the issues detailed above are real or unfounded and misinformed. Offering a balanced view of the evolving and complex nature of academic achievement among Japanese and Korean students, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian, international and comparative education, as well as those interested in Asian society more broadly.
Japanese Education in a Global Age
Akiyoshi Yonezawa
Author : Akiyoshi Yonezawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811315280
This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. Written primarily by members of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, it brings to light concerns and viewpoints that have grown out of the Japanese educational context. By focusing on uniquely Japanese educational research phenomena, the book offers international readers new insights and contributes to the international debate on education. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts.
International Handbook on Education Development in the Asia-Pacific
Wing On Lee
Author : Wing On Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2588 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 981196887X
The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of contemporary topics including educational equity and quality, language education, learning and human development, workplace learning, teacher education and professionalization, higher education organisations, citizenship and moral education, and high performing education systems. The Handbook is grounded in specific Asia Pacific contexts and scholarly traditions, using unique country-specific narratives, for example, Vietnam and Melanesia, and socio-cultural investigations through lenses such as language identity or colonisation, while offering parallel academic discourse and analyses framed by broader policy commentary from around the world.
Reimagining Japanese Education
David Blake Willis
Author : David Blake Willis
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1873927517
Sparked by the confluence of accelerating domestic transformation and increasingly explicit impacts from ‘globalization’, the Japanese education system has undergone tremendous changes during the turbulence of the past decade. This volume, which brings together some of the foremost scholars in the field of Japanese education, analyzes these recent changes in ways that help us ‘reimagine’ Japan and Japanese educational change at this critical juncture. Rather than simply updating well-worn Western images of Japan and its educational system, the aim of the book is a much deeper critical rethinking of the outmoded paradigms and perspectives that have rendered the massive shifts that have taken place in Japan largely invisible to or forgotten by the outside world. This ‘reimagining’ thus restores Japan to its place as a key comparative link in the global conversation on education and lays out new pathways for comparative research and reflection. Ranging widely across domains of policy and practice, and with a balance of Japanese and foreign scholars, the volume is also indicative of new directions in educational scholarship worldwide: approaches that center global interactions on domestic education and contribute to a far greater recognition of the polycentric, polycontextual World unfolding today. This book will be of keen interest to scholars of education worldwide, as well as those working in and across anthropology, sociology, policy studies, political science, and area studies given that contemporary transformations in Japan at once reflect and approximate political, social, and educational shifts occurring throughout the World in the early decades of the 21st century.
Korean Families Yesterday and Today
Hyunjoon Park
Author : Hyunjoon Park
Publisher :
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Families
ISBN : 0472054384
Twelve chapters, portraying diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and showing how they have come to have their current shapes
The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 21, Number 2 (Fall 2016)
Donald Baker
Author : Donald Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442281782
The University of Washington-Korea Studies Program, in collaboration with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, is proud to publish the Journal of Korean Studies.
Beyond the Tiger Mom
Maya Thiagarajan
Author : Maya Thiagarajan
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1462918417
"Beyond The Tiger Mom is filled with tips for parents, such as how to build a language rich home and how to really get to know your child. --Harvard Ed Magazine"
Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia
Young Chun Kim
Author : Young Chun Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000409864
This volume tackles perceived myths surrounding the academic excellence of East Asian students, and moves beyond Western understanding to offer in-depth analysis of the crucial role that shadow education plays in students’ academic success. Featuring a broad range of contributions from countries including Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore, chapters draw on rich qualitative research to place in the foreground the lived experiences of students, teachers, and parents in East Asian countries. In doing so, the text provides indigenous insights into the uses, values, and meanings of shadow education and highlights unknown cultural and regional aspects, as well as related phenomena including trans-boundary learning culture, nomadic learning, individualized learning, and the post-schooling era. Ultimately challenging the previously dominating Western perspective on shadow education, the volume offers innovative theorization to highlight shadow education as a phenomenon which cannot be overlooked in broader discussion of East Asian educational performance, systems, and policy. Offering pioneering insights into the growing phenomenon of shadow education, this text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in international and comparative education, curriculum studies, and East Asian educational practices and policy. Those interested in the sociology of education and educational policy will also benefit from this book.