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September 25, 2024
NEW BOOK PUBLICATION
From: raspinal <raspinal@mail.doshisha.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/09/02
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing the publication of my new book 'Middle-class boys' schools in England and Japan' by Routledge.
Description
Drawing on the author's own experience as a student and a teacher in England and Japan, this book is a comparative study of boys' secondary schools in these two countries.
By comparing two nations that are very different in their history, culture, and geographical location, and by focusing on schools that are affordable to the majority of the population, the analysis carried out in this book takes the onus away from money, national culture, and religion, allowing for a more insightful understanding of those elements of schooling, which prove essential to successful class reproduction and those that are contingent. The book also explores the experiences of boys who do not fit orthodox images of heterosexual masculinity, discussing their interaction with teenage subcultures which encourage non-conformity to middle-class norms.
Representing a novel contribution to the understanding of the relationship between education, gender, and class, this book will be a valuable resource to scholars and students of education studies, Japanese studies, and the sociology of education.
Endorsements
In this highly readable and at times very amusing account that draws heavily on his own experiences as a pupil and teacher in England and Japan over the past fifty years, Robert Aspinall provides a series of fascinating insights into the role of class and gender in contemporary education that brings in to sharp relief the question of just how meritocratic either education system really is even today.
Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, University of Oxford.
Robert Aspinall has illuminated an important and under-researched subject with this vivid comparative study. Through the lens of boys' schools for the aspiring middle-class in Japan and England, readers will learn much about social class, inequality, gender socialization, and more.
Peter Cave, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, University of Manchester
This is a fascinating study of middle-class boys' schools in England and Japan which throws analytical light on the education systems of which they are a part. The book should interest a wide audience of readers interested in comparative education, as well as those interested in the two nations in question.
Akito Okada, Professor, Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and author of Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan.
Robert Aspinall
Professor, Center for Global Education and Japanese Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto
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Drawing on the author's own experience as a student and a teacher in England and Japan, this book is a comparative study of boys' secondary schools in these two countries. By comparing two nations that are very different in their history, culture, and geographical location, and by focusing on schools that are affordable to the majority of the population, the analysis carried out in this book takes the onus away from money, national culture, and religion, allowing for a more insightful unders
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