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