1. Japanese students in crisis -- 2. Methodology and comparative problems -- pt. 1. Control: the structure of silence -- 3. Student-teacher relationships: the alienation paradigm -- 4. Discipline and punishment: dehumanisation -- 5. School rules: the web of regimentation -- 6. Achievement pressure and the meaning of study -- pt. 2. Responses: conformity and resistance -- 7. Ijime: the price of super-conformity -- 8. Tōkōkyohi: burnout and resistance
Summary
This book describes the Japanese high school as experiencd by the students themselves: a perspective which has largely been ignored until now
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-276) and indexes
