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Title:

Teaching and learning in Japan / edited by Thomas P. Rohlen, Gerald K. LeTendre.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

vi, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Teaching.
Learning.
Education--Japan.
Onderwijsstelsels.
Didactiek.
Leren.

Other Authors:

Rohlen, Thomas P.
LeTendre, Gerald K.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-388) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Japanese theories of learning / Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre -- Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery / G. Victor Sōgen Hori -- Building character / Thomas P. Rohlen -- Fostering social and intellectual development : the roots of Japanese educational success / Catherine C. Lewis -- "And Tomoko wrote this song for us" / Lauren J. Kotloff -- Honoring the individual / Nancy Sato -- Teachers and teaching : elementary schools in Japan and the United States / Shin-ying Lee, Theresa Graham, and Harold W. Stevenson -- Responsibility and learning : some preliminary hypotheses about Japanese elementary classrooms / Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis -- Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms / James W. Stigler, Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida -- The Kumon approach to teaching and learning / Nancy Ukai Russell -- Shidō : the concept of guidance / Gerald K. LeTendre -- The path to adulthood according to Japanese middle schools / Rebecca Irwin Fukuzawa -- Try, try again : training in noh drama / Tom Hare -- The Suzuki Method of music instruction / Lois Peak -- Conclusion : themes in the Japanese culture of learning / Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre.

ISBN:

9780521495875
0521495873

LCCN:

95013941

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)