From liberation to human rights: challenges for teachers of the Burakumin in Japan
2006; Routledge; Volume: 9; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13613320600696763
ISSN1470-109X
Autores Tópico(s)Global Education and Multiculturalism
ResumoThe Burakumin, a culturally defined minority group among ethnic Japanese, face continued discrimination even as effective national policies and programs offering educational and social equity are terminated. Based on interviews and conversations in Japan with activist educators, teachers and administrators, the schooling for children of Burakumin families is discussed in the context of human rights education and the changing economic and social context of urban Japan. Isolation combined with ostracization in a country where difference is seldom discussed have enabled the average Japanese to accept Government pronouncements of the eradication of discrimination. However, historical stereotypes, liberation struggles, and ambivalence about cultural identity continue to present teachers with difficult challenges in attaining the national goal of equal educational opportunity for all children.
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