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Author

Benjamin, Gail.

Title Japanese lessons : a year in a Japanese school through the eyes of an American anthropologist and her children / Gail R. Benjamin.

Imprint

New York : NYU Press, 1997.

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Description	1 online resource (274 pages)
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Contents	Getting started -- Why study Japanese education? -- Day-to-day routines -- Together at school, together in life -- A working vacation and special events -- The three R's, Japanese style -- The rest of the day -- Nagging, preaching, and discussions -- Enlisting mothers' efforts -- Education in Japanese society -- Themes and suggestions -- Sayonara.
Summary	Gail 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.
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Subject	Benjamin, Gail.
	Benjamin, Gail
	Comparative education.
	Elementary schools -- Japan -- Urawa-shi -- Sociological aspects.
	American students -- Japan.
	Students, Foreign -- Japan.
	Education, Elementary -- Japan -- Urawa-shi.
	Éducation comparée.
	Étudiants américains -- Japon.
	Enseignement primaire -- Japon -- Urawa.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
	American students
	Comparative education
	Education, Elementary
	Elementary schools -- Sociological aspects
	Students, Foreign
	Japan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq
	Japan -- Urawa-shi
Other Form:	Print version: Benjamin, Gail R. Japanese Lessons : A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 9780814712917
ISBN	9780814786123 (electronic bk.)
	081478612X (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	AU@ 000055805235
	GBVCP 100865695X