Imperial Subjects As Global Citizens
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2009
Summary
Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the argument put forward by education officials, conservative politicians, and their supporters in the academy and the business world that history offers no guide for addressing the educational challenges that face contemporary Japan. Combining diachronic and synchronic approaches, Lincicome analyzes repeated attempts throughout the twentieth century to Ointernationalize educationO (/kyoiku no kokusaika/) in Japan. This comparison reveals important similarities that transcend educational policy to encompass Japanese conceptions of individual, national, and international identity; relations between the individual, the nation, the state, and the international community; and the type of education best suited to negotiating multiple identities among the next generation of Japanese subject-citizens.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-3114-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4616-3361-7
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 193
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Note on Japanese Names and Terms No access
- Introduction No access
- 1 Reconsidering the Meiji Legacy No access Pages 1 - 30
- 2 The Great War, International Education, and the Politics of Peace No access Pages 31 - 80
- 3 Japan’s Imperial Internationalism No access Pages 81 - 114
- 4 Educating “Japanese Citizens of the World” and the Problem of History since 1945 No access Pages 115 - 158
- Epilogue No access Pages 159 - 170
- Bibliography No access Pages 171 - 184
- Index No access Pages 185 - 192
- About the Author No access Pages 193 - 193





