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| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction. What Do National Standards Really Mean? | ||
| Pt. I | The Creation of National Standards: Influences from Above and Below | 1 |
| 1 | The Development of the Course of Study and the Structure of Educational Reform in Japan | 5 |
| 2 | Setting National Standards: Educational Reform, Social Change, and Political Conflict | 19 |
| Pt. II | Textbooks and Teachers' Editions: The Starting Point for Classroom Instruction | 33 |
| 3 | How Do Japanese and U.S. Elementary Science Textbooks Differ? Depth, Breadth, and Organization of Selected Physical Science Units | 35 |
| 4 | The Creation of Japanese and U.S. Elementary Science Textbooks: Different Processes, Different Outcomes | 46 |
| 5 | Comparing Japanese and U.S. Teachers' Manuals: Implications for Mathematics Teaching and Learning | 67 |
| Pt. III | Teaching and Professional Development: Working to Improve the Standards | 93 |
| 6 | Individual Differences and Japan's Course of Study | 95 |
| 7 | Teacher Professional Development in Japan | 107 |
| Pt. IV | Implementing and Reacting to Educational Policy: Responses from Within and Outside of the System | 121 |
| 8 | "It's Glacial": Incrementalism and Japan's Reform of Foreign Language Education | 123 |
| 9 | Deregulating Japan's High School Curriculum: The Unintended Consequences of Educational Reform | 141 |
| 10 | The Role of the Private Sector in Determining National Standards: How Juku Undermine Japanese Educational Authority | 158 |
| Epilogue: Concluding Observations: Wider Contexts and Future Issues | 177 | |
| About the Editor and Contributors | 207 | |
| Index | 211 |
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Ivan Miller
reviewed National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States on November 13, 2020
National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States
Possibly the worst textbook I've ever read. The book is simultaneously way too broad and way too narrow in the topics it chooses: it's attempting to both be entirely comprehensive and pretty deep, and the result is a confusing jumble of ideas that are loosely tied together. There is a virtue in simplicity, and that's something this book lost. It attempted to thoroughly dissect the topic of curriculum. And I guess it succeeded at dissected it. But being able to see all the individual body parts of a frog on the table in front of you tells you nothing about what a living frog actually looks like. This book essentially did the same thing with curriculum. While it may technically cover everything, it didn't cover it in a way that I felt helped me in creating my own curriculum. Very tedious, very unhelpful. Would not recommend.
Rating: 1 Star (Extremely Poor).
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