Progressive Struggle and Critical Education Scholarship in Japan: Toward the Democratization of Critical Education Studies

Title
Progressive Struggle and Critical Education Scholarship in Japan: Toward the Democratization of Critical Education Studies
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Takayama, Keita
Editor
Editor(s): Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, and Luis Armando Gandin
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Series
Routledge international handbook series
UNE publication id
une:3496
Abstract
This chapter presents and overview of progressive struggle and critical scholarship in Japanese education. In so doing, I focus on the Western influence in the development of Japanese critical education and practice. This focus on the transnational flow of influence in progressive politics and theory is important to recognize but has been understudied in critical education scholarship. Progressive activists in different parts of the world are in constant dialogue with each other in developing their practice and scholarship. This deserves serious attention, particularly when remarkably similar conservative political movements attempt to fundamentally alter the nature of public education in many parts of the world (Apple, 2006a; Takayama & Apple, 2008; Whitty, Power, & Halpin, 1998), and thus when global progressive coalitions against the rightist re-structuring of public education are needed more than ever.
Link
Citation
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education, p. 354-367
ISBN
9780415958615
9780203882993
Start page
354
End page
367

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