Japanese higher education as myth

The Resource Japanese higher education as myth

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Japanese higher education as myth

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Brian J. McVeigh

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eng

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Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

378.52

Illustrations

illustrations

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index present

LC call number

LA1312

LC item number

.M39 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
bibliography

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In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese quality education, Brian J. McVeigh investigates what happens when state and corporate forces monopolize the purpose of education, and schooling becomes testing for employment, not learning. The book uses Japanese students' opinions and voices, not just statistics and official reports, to describe the problems and issues concerning higher education in Japan today. McVeigh (who has taught in Japan's higher education system for over eight years) shows that with so much weight given to examinations, students end up simulating much of their schooling. Grades reflect administrative expediency rather than academic achievement; class attendence substitutes for actual learning; and reforms attempts reenforce the problems. Thus although Japan's higher education system appears to successfully graduate students every year, it is actually a system of institutionalized mendacity that reproduces the less enviable traits of national statism

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The work Japanese higher education as myth represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.