Title:
Japanese educational productivity / edited by Robert Leestma and Herbert J. Walberg.
Michigan papers in Japanese studies ;
Michigan papers in Japanese studies ;
Author:
Leestma, Robert.
Walberg, Herbert J., 1937-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview of Japanese education: policy, structure, and current issues / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Formal pre-elementary education in Japan / Lois Peak -- Class management and student guidance in Japanese elementary and lower secondary schools / Tokuo Kataoka -- An analysis of Japanese and American textbooks in mathematics / Harold W. Stevenson and Karen Bartsch -- Science education in Japan / Willard J. Jacobson and Shigekazu Takemura, with Rodney L. Doran [et al] -- An analysis of cognitive, noncognitive, and behavioral characteristics of students in Japan / Leigh Burstein and John Hawkins -- Creativity in Japanese education / Catherine C. Lewis -- Yobiko: prep schools for college entrance in Japan / Robert L. August -- Education and labor skills in postwar Japan / Koji Taira and Soloman B. Levine -- Further research: needs, possibilites, and perspectives / Robert Leestma.
Publisher:
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan,
Publication Place:
Ann Arbor :
ISBN:
0939512556 (pbk.)
Subject:
Education -- Japan.
Educational productivity -- Japan.
Series:
Michigan papers in Japanese studies ; no. 22
Michigan papers in Japanese studies ; no. 22.
Contents:
Overview of Japanese education: policy, structure, and current issues / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Formal pre-elementary education in Japan / Lois Peak -- Class management and student guidance in Japanese elementary and lower secondary schools / Tokuo Kataoka -- An analysis of Japanese and American textbooks in mathematics / Harold W. Stevenson and Karen Bartsch -- Science education in Japan / Willard J. Jacobson and Shigekazu Takemura, with Rodney L. Doran [et al] -- An analysis of cognitive, noncognitive, and behavioral characteristics of students in Japan / Leigh Burstein and John Hawkins -- Creativity in Japanese education / Catherine C. Lewis -- Yobiko: prep schools for college entrance in Japan / Robert L. August -- Education and labor skills in postwar Japan / Koji Taira and Soloman B. Levine -- Further research: needs, possibilites, and perspectives / Robert Leestma.
Physical Description:
xi, 425 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
1992.
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