Searching for Solutions
Searching for Solutions
Chapter one introduces the global political setting of the debates surrounding best education practices. Arguments for standardized testing and austere accountability measures are clashing with those more in favor of relaxed and student-centered education practices. Regarded as a world leader in education only a few decades ago, Japan is now embroiled in the debate and searching for answers. As policies in favor of yutori kyoiku, or relaxed education, trickle down to individual Japanese schools, the complex nature of the interaction between policy and practice is illuminated.
Keywords: Japan, education practice, standardized testing, accountability measures, relaxed education, Japanese schools, policy and practice
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