Achieving Equity and Quality in Japanese Elementary Schools:Balancing the Roles of State,Teachers,and Students
Achieving Equity and Quality in Japanese Elementary Schools: Balancing the Roles of State, Teachers, and Students作者机构:Graduate School of EducationNazarbayev UniversityAstana 010000Kazakhstan
出 版 物:《Frontiers of Education in China》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学(英文))
年 卷 期:2016年第11卷第3期
页 面:272-298页
学科分类:0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题:education quality elementary school equity Japan teacher perspectives
摘 要:The aim of this paper is to explore perspectives on equity,quality,motivation,and resilience by focusing in depth on the perspectives of educators in one small,semi-rural school in *** paper is intended to provide rich,in-depth data and discussion as a way of providing insights from different perspectives into findings from large-scale international *** two key questions addressed in the paper are,(1)How are equity and quality achieved and maintained in Japanese elementary schools?and(2)How are student motivation and resilience perceived and fostered in Japanese elementary schools?These questions are addressed through analysis of key official documents related to the questions,together with analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with education professionals working in an elementary *** paper will contribute to understanding the perspectives of teachers in a particular school context in Japan on the roles of state,teachers,and children themselves in the task of achieving and maintaining equity and quality in a high performing education system.