Announcing a new book on Education in Asia published by Routledge, with a major section on Japan

Handbook Of Asian Education　A Cultural Perspective

Edited by Yong Zhao
Co-Editors: Jing Lei, Guofang Li, Ming Fang He, Kaori Okano, David Gamage, Hema Ramanathan, Nagwa Megahed

This comprehensive and authoritative Handbook describes educational practices in Asia and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, historical, and economic perspectives. It documents the accomplishments and achievements of Asian education and also discusses the challenges it faces.　Using a clearly explained civilization-based framework, the volume is structured in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in a particular Asian civilization (Sinic, Japanese, Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist). The topics addressed include both the formal schooling system and out-of-school educational practices, education governance and management, curriculum and assessment, teachers and teaching; learners and learning; home and community. Each section offers one chapter on the challenges education faces and what efforts are underway or planned to meet them, and one chapter on how immigrants from each civilization have come to live in the West, how they are educated, and how they are adapting to their new homes." Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective": offers a novel and sensible approach to capture the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia; is written from an angle to inform readers in the U.S. and other Western cultures about Asian education and the education of Asian immigrants; and uniquely combines description and interpretation of educational practices in Asia. This volume is directed to education researchers and graduate students in international and comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural education, sociocultural foundations of education, Asian studies; educational administrators, and education policy makers.

>From the Table of Contents:

Part II: Japanese Education
Chapter 9: Cultural Overview of Education in Japanese
Civilization: Adaptive Learning at the Global Periphery KAORI H.
OKANO Chapter 10: Who Runs Japan's Schools?: Education Governance and Management ROBERT ASPINALL Chapter 11: The Politics of School Curriculum and Assessment in Japan RYUKO KUBOTA Chapter 12: Teachers and Teaching in Japan: Professional Mecca or Pressure Cooker?CATHERINE LEWIS Chapter 13: Learners and Learning: Structures, Practices and Purposes PETER CAVE Chapter 14: The Changing Relationship Between the Home and School in Japan RYOKO TSUNEYOSHI Chapter 15: A Nation's School Unhinged?: Challenges and Future Directions For Japanese EducationJUNE A. GORDON Chapter 16: Japanese Immigrant and Transient Students in the United States YOSHIKO NOZAKI