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 .