Rohlen, Thomas P.

Japan's high schools / Thomas P. Rohlen. - xi, 363 pages : ill.ustrations;

"Published under the auspices of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley"--P. [ii] Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 337-349.

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

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

0520048636 (pbk.)


High schools
Education, Secondary
Educational sociology
Educational anthropology


Japan

LA1316 / .ROH 1983