Teaching and Learning in Japan

• List of contributors; Introduction: Japanese theories of learning Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre; Part I. Fundamental Approaches: 1. Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery G. Victor Sôgen Hori; 2. Building character Thomas P. Rohlen; Part II. The Emotional Foundations of Early Learning: 3. Fostering social and intellectual development: the roots of Japanes educational success Catherine C. Lewis; 4. '… And Tomoko wrote this song for us' Lauren J. Kotloff; 5. Honoring the individual Nancy Sato; Part III. School and Classroom Models: 6. Teachers and teaching: elementary schools in Japan and the United States Shin-Ying Lee, Theresa Graham and Harold W. Stevenson; 7. Responsibility and learning: some preliminary hypotheses about Japanese elementary classrooms Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis; 8. Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms James W. Stigler, Clea Fernandez, and Makoto Yoshida; 9. The Kumon approach to teaching and learning Nancy Ukai Russell; Part IV. Path and Guidance: 10. Shidô: the concept of guidance Gerald K. Letendre; 11. The path to adulthood according to Japanese middle schools Rebecca Irwin Fukuzawa; Part V. Artistic Pursuits - Old and New: 12. Try,. try again: training in Noh drama Tom Hare; 14. The Suzuki Method of music instruction Lois Peak; Conclusion: themes in the Japanese culture of learning Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre; References; Index.

"This text provides an in-depth examination of Japanese learning and teaching in many contexts across the life span of the Japanese people." Contemporary Psychology