Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kaori h okano

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  • EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN JAPAN
    KAORI H. OKANO
    This book is an up-to-date critical examination of schooling in Japan by an expert in this field. It focuses on developments in the last two decades, with a particular interest in social justice. Japan has experienced slow economic growth, changed employment practices, population decline, an aging society, and an increasingly multi-ethnic population resulting from migration. It...

    $1,160.00

  • NONFORMAL EDUCATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN JAPAN
    KAORI H. OKANO
    Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan critically examines an aspect of education that has received little attention to date: intentional teaching and learning activities that occur outside formal schooling. In the last two decades nonformal education has rapidly increased in extent and significance. This is because individual needs for education have become so diverse ...

    $1,380.00

  • MINORITIES AND EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL JAPAN
    TSUNEYOSHI, RYOKO / OKANO, KAORI H. / BOOCOCK, SARANE
    This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The contributors focus on interactions between individuals and among groups representing ...

    $1,320.00

  • YOUNG WOMEN IN JAPAN
    KAORI H. OKANO
    Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood received a CHOICE "Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2010" award from the American Library Association. This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with Japanese society more generally. Drawing on detailed primary research inclu...

    $1,320.00

  • WOMEN IN THEIR THIRTIES IN JAPAN
    KAORI H. OKANO
    This book examines the lived experiences of a group of Japanese women through their thirties, revealing the dynamic of human agency responding to the social changes of Japan’s ‘lost decades’. Exploring how these working-class women made choices and acted on them in pursuit of happiness through their thirties, the book highlights how, in so doing, they charted their various life...

    $1,240.00