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An educational or schooling system can be considered a mirror of society. Certainly many observers would agree that the challenges presently facing the Japanese education system are issues that reflect broader cultural debates within society. The issues that surround such heated educational topics as creativity, critical thinking, the curriculum, literacy, and immigrant students correspond fairly directly with recent societal debates regarding diversity, identity, national pride, and the economy (Willis, 2006).
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Poole, G.S., Takahashi, H. (2015). Effecting the “Local” by Invoking the “Global”. In: Horiguchi, S., Imoto, Y., Poole, G.S. (eds) Foreign Language Education in Japan. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-325-4_6
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