From the Rightist "Coup" to the New Beginning of Progressive Politics in Japanese Education

Title
From the Rightist "Coup" to the New Beginning of Progressive Politics in Japanese Education
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Takayama, Keita
Editor
Editor(s): Michael W Apple
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:7585
Abstract
Japan is currently undergoing a radical transformation of its education system. Much in the same way that the New Right challenged the postwar social-democratic, state welfarist settlement on public education in Anglo-American nations (Brown & Lauder, 2001; Whitty, Power, & Halpin, 1998), Japanese conservatives attempt to restructure public education by attacking the postwar democratic and egalitarian settlement of their education system. As seen elsewhere, the current Japanese education restructuring is part of the larger transformation of the postwar hegemonic configuration and its shift towards the post-postwar socio-political and economic arrangement. This perspective is absent in the current English language discussion of Japanese education reform (see Takayama, 2008a, 2009b) which tends to isolate education reform from what Stephen Ball (1997) calls "the generic quality of reform" (p. 27)--the general projects and ideologies of contemporary social policy and the changing relationship between the state and civil society. One of the pillars of the postwar settlement in Japanese education is the Fundamental Law of Education (FLE).
Link
Citation
Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education, p. 61-111
ISBN
9780415995979
0203861442
9780203861448
0415995965
9780415995962
0415995973
Start page
61
End page
111

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