Schooling Selves : Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 51102309
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-226-36786-6
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- 'Schooling Selves' is a major work of 108,000 words, based on data from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Japanese schools across twelve years. It analyses a range of academic and non-academic activities to show how schools responded to government reforms intended to promote students’ individuality and autonomy by appropriating and transforming the reforms to promote social integration and relationship instead. Its analysis finds that established beliefs and practices in schools are a brake on the individualization some studies identify in contemporary Japan. It engages widely with theoretical literature in offering an innovative analysis of self, individual, and personal autonomy in Japan.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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