How Did We Get Here? Understanding the Current Situation of Japanese Higher Education by Examining its History

Speaker: Joe Tomei, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Date: Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Location: Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Venue: Tsukuba Gakuin Universtiy, Tsukuba (formerly Tokyo Kasei Gakuin Tsukuba Women's University)
Description: For those from the West, there are a large number of seemingly inexplicable features in Japanese education in general and Japanese higher education in particular. Joe Tomei suggests that they are understandable when we examine the full history of Japanese education, which allows us to see that decisions made many decades earlier on the basis of far different circumstances have carried over into the present day. Viewing Japanese higher education in this way presents a middle course between the notion that a system that actively discriminates and a system free of any taint or blemish. The presentation will then end with some discussion on the best way to effect change within the system.
Cost for JALT members: free
Cost for JALT non-members: 500 yen
Organization: Ibaraki Chapter, Ibaraki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
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