Japanese Education in American Eyes: a response to William K. Cummings
Japanese Education in American Eyes: a response to William K. Cummings
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美国人眼中的日本教育：对威廉·K·卡明斯的回应
DOI：
10.1080/0305006890250306
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Shōgo Ichikawa
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作者：
Shōgo Ichikawa
危机中的政策：日本和美国的观点（纽约，Praeger，1986年），这使我能够广泛地讨论日本研究的美国专家的一些资产和困难，以及日本教育的西方形象的一些时间变化和特点。在这里再次提出我的观点没有多大帮助，因为自那时以来，我的观点没有发生重大变化。此外，由于我们在过去几年中就这些问题不断进行沟通和经常交换意见，我们的观点在大多数重要的基本问题上趋于一致。这就是为什么我对他在这篇文章中的论点没有特别的问题要提出，因此我的答复包括增编而不是反对意见。在文章的第一部分，他指出，在美国，只有少数几位日本教育专家，即使是知识分子和领导人也不太了解日本教育。然而，在本国所表现出的对他国的了解的深度和准确性，可以通过与在第三国所表现出的了解的深度和准确性相比较，或者与在他国所表现出的对本国的了解的深度和准确性相比较，来进行相对安全的衡量。迄今为止，没有任何一个国家像美国那样获得了如此全面的知识，培养了如此多的日本研究专家。只有少数英国、法国或德国的日本教育专家可以提及。至于像日本人一样使用汉字的东亚国家，虽然也积累了相当多的日本资料，但专门研究日语教育的研究人员和学术贡献仍然很少。因此，美国人对日本教育的研究可以说是比较有成果的。
Policies in Crisis: Japanese and American perspectives (1986, New York, Praeger), and this enabled me to discuss extensively some assets and difficulties for American experts in Japanese studies, as well as some chronological changes and characteristics of Western images of Japanese education. It would not be so helpful to present my view here again, since it has not significantly changed since then. Moreover, our views have converged on most of the important basic points, as a consequence of our continual communication and frequent exchange of opinions on these subjects during the last few years. That is why I have no particular questions to raise with respect to his arguments in his present article, and my response accordingly comprises addenda more than objections. In the first part of his essay, he states that there have been only a handful of specialists in Japanese education in the United States and that even intellectuals and leaders are not very knowledgeable about Japanese education. However, the depth and accuracy of understanding about another country shown in one's own country might be more safely measured relatively by comparison with that shown in a third country, or with that shown in the other country about one's own country.So far, no other country has obtained such comprehensive knowledge and produced so many specialists in Japanese studies as the United States. There are only a few British, French or German experts in Japanese education one can mention. As regards East Asian countries where people use Chinese characters as the Japanese do, although they have accumulated a considerable amount of information from Japan, the number of researchers who specialise in Japanese education and scholarly contributions to this field still remains small. And so research into Japanese education undertaken by Americans can be regarded as relatively fruitful.