Teaching and Learning in Japan Book

List of contributors; Introduction: Japanese theories of learning Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre;

Part I. Fundamental Approaches:

1. Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery G. Victor Sôgen Hori;
2. Building character Thomas P. Rohlen;

Part II. The Emotional Foundations of Early Learning:
3. Fostering social and intellectual development: the roots of Japanes educational success Catherine C. Lewis;
4. '... And Tomoko wrote this song for us' Lauren J. Kotloff;
5. Honoring the individual Nancy Sato;

Part III. School and Classroom Models:
6. Teachers and teaching: elementary schools in Japan and the United States Shin-Ying Lee, Theresa Graham and Harold W. Stevenson;
7. Responsibility and learning: some preliminary hypotheses about Japanese elementary classrooms Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis;
8. Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms James W. Stigler, Clea Fernandez, and Makoto Yoshida;
9. The Kumon approach to teaching and learning Nancy Ukai Russell;

Part IV. Path and Guidance:
10. Shidô: the concept of guidance Gerald K. Letendre;
11. The path to adulthood according to Japanese middle schools Rebecca Irwin Fukuzawa;

Part V. Artistic Pursuits - Old and New:
12. Try,. try again: training in Noh drama Tom Hare;
14. The Suzuki Method of music instruction Lois Peak; Conclusion: themes in the Japanese culture of learning Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre; References; Index.