Converging Paths or Ships Passing in the Night? An 'English' critique of Japanese school reform
Converging Paths or Ships Passing in the Night? An 'English' critique of Japanese school reform
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交汇的路径或夜间经过的船只？
DOI：
10.1080/713656656
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
A. Green
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作者：
A. Green
本文以英国在地方学校管理和择校等政策方面的经验为参照，探讨了日本中等教育自由化改革议程的起源和潜在影响。分析是基于1997年在东京和大坂对日本决策者、学校负责人和县行政人员进行的广泛访谈。这项研究是由日本驻伦敦大使馆支持的英日联合研究的一部分，这里的分析突出了英日研究人员在观察对方国家改革的合作中出现的国家视角问题。本文认为，日本的改革议程有两个方面。这包括课程和教学实践的必要多样化，以及行政上的转向，即放松管制和学校竞争，这可能会破坏日本中学教育的一些传统优势。
This article examines the origins and potential effects of the liberalising reform agenda in Japanese secondary education in the light of experiences in the UK with policies such as local school management and school choice. The analysis is based on extensive interviews conducted with Japanese policy-makers, school heads and Prefectural administrators in 1997 in Tokyo and Osaka. The research was part of a joint Anglo-Japanese study, supported by the Japanese Embassy in London, and the analysis here highlights issues of national perspective which emerged in the collaboration between English and Japanese researchers observing reforms in each other's countries. The paper argues that the reform agenda in Japan has two strands. These involve both a necessary diversification of curriculum and pedagogic practices, and an administrative shift towards deregulation and school competition which may undermine some of the traditional strengths of Japanese secondary schooling.