Windows on Japanese Education

EDWARD R. BEAUCHAMP is Professor of Historical and Comparative Studies in Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan, Learning to Be Japanese, and Dissertations in the History of Education, as well as articles in the History of Education Quarterly. Dr. Beauchamp co-edited Educational Policies in Crisis: Japanese and American Perspectives (Praeger, 1986), Education in Japan: A Sourcebook, and Foreign Employees in 19th Century Japan.

• Introduction The Historical Context of Japanese Education to 1945 by Mark Lincicome The Development of Japanese Educational Policy, 1945-1985 by Edward R. Beauchamp Education Reform in Japan: Goals and Results of the Recent Reform Campaign by Leonard Schoppa Financing Japanese Education by Ichikawa Shogo The Japanese Preschool System by Sarane Spence Boocock Task Persistence in Japanese Elementary Schools by Priscilla N. Blinco Teaching of Mathematics in Japanese Schools by Nancy C. Whitman Japan's Science and Engineering Pipeline: Structure, Policies, and Trends by William K. Cummings The Contribution of Education to Japan's Economic Growth by Robert Evans, Jr. The Education of Women in Japan by Kumiko Fujimura-Fansrlow and Anne E. Imamura Teacher Education in Japan by Shimahara Nobuo The Role of Education in Preserving the Ethnic Identity of Korean Residents in Japan by Umakoshi Toru "Examination Hell" by Peter Frost The Future of Japanese Higher Education by Kitamura Kazuyuki Postscript: What Can We Learn from Japan? by Edward R. Beauchamp Index