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This volume in the Oxford Studies in Comparative Education series analyses the success or otherwise of reform efforts in Japanese education since the Second World War. Contributors address a wide variety of themes from differing perspectives, their articles ranging from a historical study of reform efforts during the military occupation of Japan, through an analysis of educational developments under Prime Minister Nakasone, to the practical effects of changes in the teaching of mathematics. It will be of interest to all students of education in Japan. CONTENTS: Roger Goodman. The Why, What and How of Educational Reform in Japan; William K. Cummings. Why Reform Japanese Education? Masako Shibata. Destruction and Reconstruction: a comparative analysis of the education reform in Japan and Germany under the US military occupation after World War Two; Christopher P. Hood. The Third Great Reform of the Japanese Education System: success in the 1980s onwards; Peter Cave. Japanese Educational Reform: developments and propects at primary and secondary level; Robert W. Aspinall. Japanese Nationalism and the Reform of English Language Teaching; Yoko Tsuruta. Globalisation and the Recent Reforms in Japanese Higher Education; Julia Whitburn. Changes in Mathematics Teaching in Japan: are they real or rational? David Phillips. Postscript. Reflections on British Interest in Education in Japan.
