The Japanese high school : silence and resistance

Shoko Yoneyama

Japan's education system, like its economy, was long seen in Japan and elsewhere as the model of efficiency, discipline and high standards. In recent years, however, the model has collapsed. Classroom pressures mount, and incidents of bullying, suicide, dropout, and violence of one kind or another proliferate. The growing sense of educational crisis came to a head with the 1997 incident in which a child was murdered and decapitated, apparently by a fourteen year old student. When the child killer of Kobe claimed that he had been avenging himself against school which 'threatened his existence', many students were reported to have expressed understanding and support for his views. For large numbers of school students in Japan, school has become a battle field. What is going on in the Japanese education system, and among its students? What does the crisis in the education system signify for the country's troubled economic and political systems? This book describes the Japanese high school as experienced by the students themselves: a perspective which has been largely ignored until now. Using comparative data from Japan and Australia, Shoko Yoneyama focuses on four main aspects of school life: student-teacher relationships, discipline and punishment, school rules and study. She discusses the relationship between these and the phenomena of ijime (group bullying) and tokokyohi (school phobia/ refusal). The Japanese High School is an incisive and disturbing study which will be of great interest to those working in the fields of comparative education, Asian studies and Sociology.

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  • Introduction 1. Japanese Students in Crisis 2. Methodology and Comparative Problems Part 1. Control: The Structure of Silence 3. Student-Teacher Relationship: The Alienation Paradigm 4. Discipline and Punish 5. School Rules: The Web of Regimentation 6. Study: Competition and Meaninglessness Part 2. Responses: Conformity and Resistance 7. Ijime The Price of Super Conformity 8. Tokokyohi Burnout and Resistance Conclusion Bibliography Index

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書名 The Japanese high school : silence and resistance
著作者等 米山 尚子
Yoneyama Shoko
シリーズ名 The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 1999
ページ数 xix, 287 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0415154391
NCID BA42223650
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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