Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan

Risk, Community, and Knowledge

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan's recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan's policymakers, and statistics find one-third of Japanese people engaged in some form of these activities. Activities that increase abilities and improve health help manage the insecurity that comes with Japan's new economic order and increased income disparity. Ogawa notes that the state attempts to integrate the divided and polarized Japanese population through a newly imagined collectivity, atarashii kōkyō or the New Public Commons, a concept that attempts to redefine the boundaries of moral responsibility between the state and the individual, with greater emphasis on the virtues of self-regulation. He discusses the history of lifelong learning in Japan, grassroots efforts to create an entrepreneurial self, community schools that also function as centers for problem solving, vocational education, and career education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438457864

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IllustrationsPreface1. IntroductionWhy Lifelong Learning Now?Lifelong Learning as a Global TrendRisk: An Analytical ToolRisk: A Japanese ContextMethodsOverview of Chapters2. Japan’s Lifelong Learning: History, Policies, and PracticesThree Key TermsSocial EducationLifelong EducationLifelong LearningLifelong Learning Promotion LawLifelong Learning Council Report in 1992Focus on the Local: Developments in the 1990s3. Risk Management by a Neoliberal StateLifelong Learning and RiskJapan’s Lifelong Learning in the 2000s"Comprehensive Knowledge"Local Communities: Locations for Realizing the New Public CommonsNeoliberal Knowledge4. The New Public CommonsThe New Public CommonsThe Bunka BorantiaCivic Knowledge"Entrepreneurial Self" for Constructing Civic KnowledgeJukugi (Due Deliberation)Real JukugiNew Public Commons as a New Growth Strategy5. The Japanese "Community School"Revival of CommunicationThe Japanese "Community School" SystemIkiru Chikara (Zest for Living)Integrating School Education and Social EducationA Varied Landscape6. Becoming a Social EntrepreneurWhy Don’t You Initiate a New Style of Working?Vocational Training in JapanAfter the Lehman ShockThe Knowledge and Skills Required to Support the New Public CommonsBecoming a Social Entrepreneur: A Challenging OpportunityTaking Risks to Survive in the New Labor MarketPostscript7. New Knowledge for YouthSuicide among Young People"Career Education"Changing Trends in UniversitiesToward Social InclusionDeveloping CitizensAfterword: KizunaAppendicesAppendix 1. Japan’s Lifelong Learning in the 2000sAppendix 2. Major Legal and Policy Developments of Japan’s Lifelong Learning (1947–2011)Appendix 3. List of Civic Knowledge SourcesNotesJapanese GlossaryReferencesIndex

"…a very readable book that never fails to remind us of the lived reality of the teachers, volunteers, social entrepreneurs, and the people they are helping cope with the changes that are ongoing in Japan's society and economy." — Journal of Japanese Studies"…thought-provoking … Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan is a thoroughly engrossing and, at times, unsettling account of one critical apparatus of neoliberalism in contemporary Japan … The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in neoliberal politics, risk and risk management, state-civil society relations, precarity, and the challenges of life in contemporary Japan." — Pacific Affairs