pt. 1. Teaching and Current Issues. Ch. 1. Introduction: The Background. Ch. 2. Culture of Teaching in Japan. Ch. 3. Teacher Education and Social Change. Ch. 4. Professional Development: Japanese Strategies -- pt. 2. Ethnography of Learning to Teach. Ch. 5. Learning to Teach in Japanese Schools / Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai. Ch. 6. Cultural Theory of Teaching and Practice / Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai. Ch. 7. Occupational Socialization of Beginning Teachers / Nobuo K. Shimahara and Akira Sakai
Summary
This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades. The collection explores day-to-day teaching in Japan from the teacher's perspective relying on first hand accounts by those within the system
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index
