Japanese Education and Its Implications for U.S. Education.
1985; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 66; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1940-6487
Autores Tópico(s)Global Education and Multiculturalism
Resumo-y AP??ESE EDUCATION has fasci I nated Americans for the past 10 years. I American corporations have sought I to identify the sources of Japanese */ industrial strength; American jour nalists, seeking the wellspring of the com petitiveness and unsurpassed productiv ity of Japanese industry, have nominated schooling as its source.1 The anthropolo gist Thomas Rohlen, attributing the high academic standards of Japanese high school education to the rigors of the Japa nese curriculum and the intensity of Japa nese schooling, even suggested that Japanese high school diploma is the equivalent of an average American bache lor's degree.2 Since the publication in 1979 of Ezra VogePs Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, articles dealing with Japa nese education have frequently appeared in journals, popular magazines, and news papers. In March 1984 the Kappan pub lished Should the U.S. Mimic Japanese Education? Let's Look Before We Leap, by John Cogan. In this article I plan to offer a different but related view of Japa
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