LEADER 04654nam 22006615 450 001 996588070203316 005 20200623100627.0 010 $a0-8147-8612-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814786123 035 $a(CKB)2670000000167917 035 $a(EBL)866210 035 $a(OCoLC)784884520 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584334 035 $a(PQKB)10796537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866210 035 $a(OCoLC)45732285 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10311 035 $a(DE-B1597)547912 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814786123 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000167917 100 $a20200623h19971997 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapanese Lessons $eA Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children /$fGail R. Benjamin 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[1997] 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-1291-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-257) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Getting Started -- $t2. Why Study Japanese Education? -- $t3. Day-to-Day Routines -- $t4. Together at School, Together in Life -- $t5. A Working Vacation and Special Events -- $t6. The Three R's, Japanese Style -- $t7. The Rest of the Day -- $t8. Nagging, Preaching and Discussions -- $t9. Enlisting Mothers' Efforts -- $t10. Education in Japanese Society -- $t11. Themes and Suggestions -- $t12. Sayonam -- $tAppendix. Reading and Writing in Japanese -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aGail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... --The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese Lessons, Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences as a American parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. An anthropologist, Benjamin successfully weds the roles of observer and parent, illuminating the strengths of the Japanese system and suggesting ways in which Americans might learn from it. With an anthropologist's keen eye, Benjamin takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers. We follow the children on class trips and Sports Days and through the rigors of summer vacation homework. We share the experiences of her young son and daughter as they react to Japanese schools, friends, and teachers. Through Benjamin we learn what it means to be a mother in Japan--how minute details, such as the way mothers prepare lunches for children, reflect cultural understandings of family and education. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Getting Started 2. Why Study Japanese Education? 3. Day-to-Day Routines 4. Together at School, Together in Life 5. A Working Vacation and Special Events 6. The Three R's, Japanese Style 7. The Rest of the Day 8. Nagging, Preaching, and Discussions 9. Enlisting Mothers' Efforts 10. Education in Japanese Society 11. Themes and Suggestions 12. Sayonara Appendix. Reading and Writing in Japanese References Index 606 $aComparative education 606 $aElementary schools$zJapan$zUrawa$xSociological aspects 606 $aAmerican students$zJapan 606 $aStudents, Foreign$zJapan 606 $aEducation, Elementary$zJapan$zUrawa-shi 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aComparative education. 615 0$aElementary schools$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aAmerican students 615 0$aStudents, Foreign 615 0$aEducation, Elementary 676 $a372.952 686 $aDV 2365$2rvk 700 $aBenjamin$b Gail R., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01232348 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996588070203316 996 $aJapanese Lessons$92861275 997 $aUNISA