Ogawa Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan

Risk, Community, and Knowledge
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5788-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ogawa, Akihiro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Preface

1. Introduction

Why Lifelong Learning Now?
Lifelong Learning as a Global Trend
Risk: An Analytical Tool
Risk: A Japanese Context
Methods
Overview of Chapters

2. Japan’s Lifelong Learning: History, Policies, and Practices

Three Key Terms
Social Education
Lifelong Education
Lifelong Learning
Lifelong Learning Promotion Law
Lifelong Learning Council Report in 1992
Focus on the Local: Developments in the 1990s

3. Risk Management by a Neoliberal State

Lifelong Learning and Risk
Japan’s Lifelong Learning in the 2000s
“Comprehensive Knowledge”
Local Communities: Locations for Realizing the New Public Commons
Neoliberal Knowledge

4. The New Public Commons

The New Public Commons
The Bunka Borantia
Civic Knowledge
“Entrepreneurial Self” for Constructing Civic Knowledge
Jukugi (Due Deliberation)
Real Jukugi
New Public Commons as a New Growth Strategy

5. The Japanese “Community School”

Revival of Communication
The Japanese “Community School” System
Ikiru Chikara (Zest for Living)
Integrating School Education and Social Education
A Varied Landscape

6. Becoming a Social Entrepreneur

Why Don’t You Initiate a New Style of Working?
Vocational Training in Japan
After the Lehman Shock
The Knowledge and Skills Required to Support the New Public Commons
Becoming a Social Entrepreneur: A Challenging Opportunity
Taking Risks to Survive in the New Labor Market
Postscript

7. New Knowledge for Youth

Suicide among Young People
“Career Education”
Changing Trends in Universities
Toward Social Inclusion
Developing Citizens

Afterword: Kizuna

Appendices

Appendix 1. Japan’s Lifelong Learning in the 2000s
Appendix 2. Major Legal and Policy Developments of Japan’s Lifelong Learning (1947–2011)
Appendix 3. List of Civic Knowledge Sources

Notes
Japanese Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Failure of Civil Society? The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan, also published by SUNY Press.