Teaching and learning in Japan / edited by Thomas P. Rohlen, Gerald K. LeTendre.
| Other author | Rohlen, Thomas P. |
| Other author | LeTendre, Gerald K. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
| Description | vi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : Japanese theories of learning / Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre -- Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery / G. Victor Sōgen Hori -- Building character / Thomas P. Rohlen -- Fostering social and intellectual development : the roots of Japanese educational success / Catherine C. Lewis -- "And Tomoko wrote this song for us" / Lauren J. Kotloff -- Honoring the individual / Nancy Sato -- Teachers and teaching : elementary schools in Japan and the United States / Shin-ying Lee, Theresa Graham, and Harold W. Stevenson -- Responsibility and learning : some preliminary hypotheses about Japanese elementary classrooms / Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis -- Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms / James W. Stigler, Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida -- The Kumon approach to teaching and learning / Nancy Ukai Russell -- Shidō : the concept of guidance / Gerald K. LeTendre -- The path to adulthood according to Japanese middle schools / Rebecca Irwin Fukuzawa -- Try, try again : training in noh drama / Tom Hare -- The Suzuki Method of music instruction / Lois Peak -- Conclusion : themes in the Japanese culture of learning / Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-388) and index. |
| LCCN | 95013941 |
| ISBN | 0521495873 |