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Benjamin, Gail R.

 
9780814713341: Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children
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ISBN 10 : 0814713343 ISBN 13 : 9780814713341
Editeur : New York University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system

"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 Lessons, Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences as a American parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. An anthropologist, Benjamin successfully weds the roles of observer and parent, illuminating the strengths of the Japanese system and suggesting ways in which Americans might learn from it.

With an anthropologist's keen eye, Benjamin takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers. We follow the children on class trips and Sports Days and through the rigors of summer vacation homework. We share the experiences of her young son and daughter as they react to Japanese schools, friends, and teachers. Through Benjamin we learn what it means to be a mother in Japan--how minute details, such as the way mothers prepare lunches for children, reflect cultural understandings of family and education.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gail R. Benjamin is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at Saitama University and Tsukuba University in Japan.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814713343
ISBN 13 
9780814713341
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780814712917: Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children

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ISBN 10 :  0814712916 ISBN 13 :  9780814712917
Editeur : New York University Press, 1997
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