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RUBRO EDUCACION
TITULO Education Reform in Postwar Japan (The 1946 U.S. Education Mission)(★)
AUTOR Gary H. Tsuchimochi
EDITORIAL University of Tokyo Press
ISBN 0-86008-496-5
IDIOMA INGLES
CODIGO INTERNO DU-0017
NOTA (★)(Postwar education in Japan was influenced in dramatic ways by the policies and recommendations of the occupying Allied Powers. The Occupation authorities were eager to democratize Japan´s schools, and measures implemented in the early postwar years had a lasting impact on the structure of the system, the role of teachers, and the content of the curriculum. Occupation thinking about education, in turn, was shaped in part by the reports of two delegations of American educators who toured Japan´s schools and conferred with local officials and scholars. Professor Tsuchimochi reports in this volume on the first, and most important, of these study missions. Working with newly declassified materials in U.S. Government archives, the diaries and papers of key participants, and interviews with senior delegation members, he traces the organization and activities of the 1946 Education Mission to Japan, discusses and analyzes its recommendations, and demonstrates the contributions of Japanese educators to the Mission´s work. Among the key issues the visiting educators debated were reform of the Japanese language, the training of teachers, and the structure of the school system itself. As a result of the Mission´s report, school education was organized in what is known today as the 6-3-3 format --six years of primary school followed by three years each of junior and senior high school. The new materials examined in this volume show that the 6-3-3 system, rather than being ´imposed on Japan by the Occupation,´ as is claimed today in some circles, was in fact advocated most strongly by the committee of Japanese educators who worked alongside the Americans, and is part of their legacy to the present-day Japanese school system. This volume provides a comprehensive and fascinating look at the individuals and events that played a major role in Japan´s postwar educational revolution. Gary H. Tsuchimochi is professor of Historical and Comparative Studies in Education at Toyo Eiwa Women´s University, Yokohama. Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, New York.)

   

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