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Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan

By Akihiro Ogawa

Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan Social Sciences

Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan

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Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan's recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan's policymakers, and statistics find one-third of Japanese people engaged in some form of these activities. Activities that increase abilities and improve health help manage the insecurity that comes with Japan's new economic order and increased income disparity. Ogawa notes that the state attempts to integrate the divided and polarized Japanese population through a newly imagined collectivity, atarashii k¿ky¿ or the New Public Commons, a concept that attempts to redefine the boundaries of moral responsibility between the state and the individual, with greater emphasis on the virtues of self-regulation. He discusses the history of lifelong learning in Japan, grassroots efforts to create an entrepreneurial self, community schools that also function as centers for problem solving, vocational education, and career education.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2016-07-02
Publication Date:
2016-07-02
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1438457863
ISBN13:
9781438457864
Weight:
421 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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