Japanese Lessons A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children

• Main Author: Benjamin, Gail R. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: NYU Press 1997
• Subjects: Anthropology
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Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... --The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and...