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Learning to Be Adolescent: Growing Up in U.S. and Japanese Middle Schools
Gerald K. LeTendre

Yale University Press, 2000

The organization of middle schools and the practices of middle school teachers in Japan and the United States differ dramatically Gerald K. LeTendre demonstrates in this compelling comparative study. Based on his long-term observations in Japanese and American schools and on analyses of curricula and classroom practices, the author describes what teachers, administrators, and counselors in each country believe about adolescent development. He ...

Teaching and Learning in Japan

2 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 1996

Essential Reading on Japanese Education
I first came across this book towards the end of my first year in the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Programme as an Assistant Language Teacher at a junior high school in rural Japan. The essays in the book (particularly the pieces by Fukuzawa and LeTendre examining adolescent development in junior high schools) helped me to place in order and begin understanding what had up until then been a ...

Competitor or Ally?: Japan's Role in American Educational Debates (Garland Reference Library of Social ...
Gerald LeTendre

RoutledgeFalmer, 1999

In this book the authors systematically address the most common stereotypes or myths about Japanese education that are currently being circulated in the popular press, teaching magazines and educational research journals. The authors show how arguments about Japan are used to further political ends within the American educational debate. Some of the myths that the book debunks are Japan's high adolescent suicide rate. LeTendre and Zeng show ...

National Differences, Global Similarities
David P./ Letendre, Gerald K. Baker

Stanford Univ Pr, 2005

The school violence dilemma: protecting the rights of students with disabilities while maintaining teachers' ...
Susan C. Faircloth, Gerald K. LeTendre

Thomson Gale, 2006

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National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture And The Future Of Schooling (Stanford Social ...

1 review
David P. Baker, Gerald K. Letendre

Stanford University Press, 2005

Misrepresenting Japan
Having taught grade school children in Japan and in particular, one boy who was attending Kobe High School, the vehicle to Todai, I know first hand that while the author's assertions about minimal school teacher homework assignment are accurate, they grossly distort the true picture because their assertion about less homework in Japan becomes a premise for the conclusion of better performance. ...

Intense Years: How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family and Friends (Reference Books in International ...
Gerald Letendre

RoutledgeFalmer, 2001

This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years. We discuss several themes which play a major role in how Japanese adolescents deal with school, academic pressure, social maturation, social hierarchy, personality development, and the development of gender ...