Overview
- Examines the social and political circumstances and policy processes that underpin the recent curriculum reform
- Discusses its intended and unintended pedagogic and social outcomes, against Japan's history of curricula reform
- Incorporates perspectives from classroom practice and practitioner debates into theoretical analysis
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 67)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Akito Okada is Professor at the Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where he coordinates the International Students’ Education Program (ISEP TUFS), and is responsible for the supervision of students from undergraduate to doctoral level. As an alumnus of the Department of Education, Oxford University, he completed his DPhil in Comparative and International Education in 1998 under the supervision of Professors David Phillips and Roger Goodman. His research interests include: education policy and reform; comparative and international school education; intercultural communication; education for international understanding; and international student education.
Sam Bamkin is MEXT Research Scholar, currently researching at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education and Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. He is Churchill Fellow; Adjunct Research Fellow, Research and Clinical Center for Child Development, Hokkaido University; and Visiting Lecturer in Intercultural Communication, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University. His research interests include: the enactment of curriculum reform; changes in the policymaking process; moral education policy and practice; and intercultural communication.
Sam Bamkin is MEXT Research Scholar, currently researching at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education and Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. He is Churchill Fellow; Adjunct Research Fellow, Research and Clinical Center for Child Development, Hokkaido University; and Visiting Lecturer in Intercultural Communication, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University. His research interests include: the enactment of curriculum reform; changes in the policymaking process; moral education policy and practice; and intercultural communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japan’s School Curriculum for the 2020s
Book Subtitle: Politics, Policy, and Pedagogy
Editors: Akito Okada, Sam Bamkin
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2076-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2075-2Published: 03 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2078-3Published: 18 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2076-9Published: 02 July 2022
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership