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Schooling Selves

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Schooling Selves

By Peter Cave

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About the book

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book, Peter Cave explores these reforms as they have played out at the junior high level, the most intense pressure point in the Japanese system, a time when students prepare for the high school entrance ex...Show more

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9780226367866

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Schooling Selves

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