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Author Benjamin, Gail.

Title Japanese Lessons : a Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children.

Publication Info. New York : NYU Press, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents 1 Getting started; 2 Why study Japanese education?; 3 Day-to-day routines; 4 Together at school, together in life; 5 A working vacation and special events; 6 The three R's, Japanese style; 7 The rest of the day; 8 Nagging, preaching and discussions; 9 Enlisting mothers' efforts; 10 Education in Japanese society; 11 Themes and suggestions; 12 Sayonara; Appendix: Reading and writing in Japanese.
Summary Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one ... -- The New York Times Book Review. Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese.
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Subject Benjamin, Gail.
Benjamin, Gail. (OCoLC)fst00210949
Comparative education.
Elementary schools -- Japan -- Urawa-shi -- Sociological aspects.
American students -- Japan.
Students, Foreign -- Japan.
Education, Elementary -- Japan -- Urawa-shi.
Education.
American students. (OCoLC)fst00807446
Comparative education. (OCoLC)fst00871331
Education, Elementary. (OCoLC)fst00902945
Elementary schools -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00907992
Students, Foreign. (OCoLC)fst01136169
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Japan -- Urawa-shi. (OCoLC)fst01211403
Other Form: Print version: Benjamin, Gail R. Japanese Lessons : A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 9780814712917
ISBN 9780814786123 (electronic bk.)
081478612X (electronic bk.)
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