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Peter Cave, Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education

Peter Cave, Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high... 98 BOOK REVIEWS Aoki, M. (1988). Information, incentives and bargaining in the Japanese economy: A microtheory of the Japanese economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hall, P. A., & Soskice, D. (2001). Varieties of capitalism: The institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Katz, R. (1998). Japan, the system that soured. New York, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Franz Waldenberger German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan waldenberger@dijtokyo.org © 2017 Franz Waldenberger http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281507 Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education, by Peter Cave, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016, 296 pp., US$35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780226367866, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/ book/chicago/S/bo23467662.html This book is the newest addition to a series of recent ethnographic studies on Japanese youths and schools (Blackwood, 2010, 2016; Cave, 2004; Hebert, 2012; LeTendre, 2000). It focuses on the actual implementation of education reforms on the local school level, as well as long-term changes brought about by these reforms with regard to emphases on group living (shūdan seikatsu), autonomous character-building, and interdependence. The aims of the book are manifold: using discourse analysis to go beyond the simple dichotomy of individual and society; employing ethnographic research to show that discourses and prac- tices operate with varying understandings of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Peter Cave, Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education

Wang, Zi
Contemporary Japan , Volume 29 (1): 3 – Jan 2, 2017
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Peter Cave, Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education

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98 BOOK REVIEWS Aoki, M. (1988). Information, incentives and bargaining in the Japanese economy: A microtheory of the Japanese economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hall, P. A., & Soskice, D. (2001). Varieties of capitalism: The institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Katz, R. (1998). Japan, the system that soured. New York, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Franz Waldenberger German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan...
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98 BOOK REVIEWS Aoki, M. (1988). Information, incentives and bargaining in the Japanese economy: A microtheory of the Japanese economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hall, P. A., & Soskice, D. (2001). Varieties of capitalism: The institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Katz, R. (1998). Japan, the system that soured. New York, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Franz Waldenberger German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan waldenberger@dijtokyo.org © 2017 Franz Waldenberger http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281507 Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education, by Peter Cave, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016, 296 pp., US$35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780226367866, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/ book/chicago/S/bo23467662.html This book is the newest addition to a series of recent ethnographic studies on Japanese youths and schools (Blackwood, 2010, 2016; Cave, 2004; Hebert, 2012; LeTendre, 2000). It focuses on the actual implementation of education reforms on the local school level, as well as long-term changes brought about by these reforms with regard to emphases on group living (shūdan seikatsu), autonomous character-building, and interdependence. The aims of the book are manifold: using discourse analysis to go beyond the simple dichotomy of individual and society; employing ethnographic research to show that discourses and prac- tices operate with varying understandings of

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2017

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