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Japanese educational productivity/ edited by Robert Leestma and Herbert J. Walberg. - Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. - xi, 425 p.: ill.; 23 cm. - Michigan papers in Japanese studies, no. 22. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of Japanese education: policy, structure, and current issues / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Formal pre-elementary education in Japan / Lois Peak -- Class management and student guidance in Japanese elementary and lower secondary schools / Tokuo Kataoka -- An analysis of Japanese and American textbooks in mathematics / Harold W. Stevenson and Karen Bartsch -- Science education in Japan / Willard J. Jacobson and Shigekazu Takemura, with Rodney L. Doran [et al] -- An analysis of cognitive, noncognitive, and behavioral characteristics of students in Japan / Leigh Burstein and John Hawkins -- Creativity in Japanese education / Catherine C. Lewis -- Yobiko: prep schools for college entrance in Japan / Robert L. August -- Education and labor skills in postwar Japan / Koji Taira and Soloman B. Levine -- Further research: needs, possibilites, and perspectives / Robert Leestma .

ISBN: 0939512556 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 91032032

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Education--Japan.
Educational productivity--Japan.

Dewey Class. No.: 510.7 / J35