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Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan

Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan

Lincicome, Mark

Paperback

Series: Asiaworld

AnthropologyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0739131141
ISBN13: 9780739131145
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 16 2009
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the argument put forward by education officials, conservative politicians, and their supporters in the academy and the business world that history offers no guide for addressing the educational challenges that face contemporary Japan.

Combining diachronic and synchronic approaches, Lincicome analyzes repeated attempts throughout the twentieth century to internationalize education (/kyoiku no kokusaika/) in Japan. This comparison reveals important similarities that transcend educational policy to encompass Japanese conceptions of individual, national, and international identity; relations between the individual, the nation, the state, and the international community; and the type of education best suited to negotiating multiple identities among the next generation of Japanese subject-citizens.

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