The Japanese high school : silence and resistance /

The Japanese high school : silence and resistance /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yoneyama, Shoko.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 287 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Subject:	Education, Secondary -- Japan. Education, Secondary -- Australia. High school students -- Japan -- Attitudes. High school students -- Australia -- Attitudes. Teacher-student relationships -- Japan. Teacher-student relationships -- Australia. Educational sociology -- Japan. Educational change -- Japan. Education, Secondary. Educational change. Educational sociology. High school students -- Attitudes. Teacher-student relationships. Australia. Japan. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113857

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ISBN:	0203170792 9780203170793 0203013603 9780203013601 0415154391 9781134734481 1134734484 9781134734436 1134734433 9781134734474 1134734476 9780415154390 0415154391 9780415438292 0415438292
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-276) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	This book describes the Japanese high school as experiencd by the students themselves: a perspective which has largely been ignored until now.
Other form:	Print version: Yoneyama, Shoko. Japanese high school. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415154391
Govt.docs classification:	FLM3026

Table of Contents:

1. Japanese students in crisis
2. Methodology and comparative problems
pt. 1. Control: the structure of silence
3. Student-teacher relationships: the alienation paradigm
4. Discipline and punishment: dehumanisation
5. School rules: the web of regimentation
6. Achievement pressure and the meaning of study
pt. 2. Responses: conformity and resistance
7. Ijime: the price of super-conformity
8. Tōkōkyohi: burnout and resistance.