Japan's Ministry of Education 'becoming the Right': neo-liberal restructuring and the Ministry's struggles for political legitimacy

Title
Japan's Ministry of Education 'becoming the Right': neo-liberal restructuring and the Ministry's struggles for political legitimacy
Publication Date
2008
Author(s)
Takayama, Keita
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/14767720802061439
UNE publication id
une:3590
Abstract
This article first examines the controversial revision of the Fundamental Law of Education (FLE) by situating it in the larger global context of neo-liberal and neo-conservative state-restructuring and education reform. It then focuses on the domestic politics behind what seems to be the global convergence of education policy along neo-liberal and neo-conservative lines. Focusing on the political agency of the Ministry of Education (MOE) and tracing its shifting political interests in regards to the FLE amendment, the article illuminates the MOE's strategic move to 'become the Right' to secure its political legitimacy in the relentless neo-liberal pressures for fiscal and administrative decentralisation.
Link
Citation
Globalisation, Societies and Education, 6(2), p. 131-146
ISSN
1476-7732
1476-7724
Start page
131
End page
146

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