Framing the Education Crisis
Framing the Education Crisis
Chapter Two situates the themes of this book in broader social and political contexts. It compares the forces that have been driving calls for educational reform in Japan and the U.S. over the past twenty-five years. The analysis indicates that while politicians in both locations have relied on a rhetoric of crisis to support their education reform agendas, the evidence used to justify those claims as well as the proposed solutions differed markedly. At the same time that the U.S. Department of Education was promoting expanded testing and accountability in schools through the No Child Left Behind Act, MEXT was decrying those very factors as responsible for the “crisis” the Japanese education system was experiencing.
Keywords: political context, rhetoric of crisis, education reform, testing, accountability, no child left behind
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
