Lifelong learning in neoliberal Japan : risk, community, and knowledge

Lifelong learning in neoliberal Japan : risk, community, and knowledge / Akihiro Ogawa.

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. Activit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ogawa, Akihiro, 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Continuing education > Japan.
Neoliberalism > Japan.
EDUCATION > Adult & Continuing Education.
EDUCATION > Non-Formal Education.
Continuing education
Neoliberalism
Japan
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Japan's lifelong learning : history, policies, and practices
  • Risk management by a neoliberal state
  • The new public commons
  • The Japanese "community school"
  • Becoming a social entrepreneur
  • New knowledge for youth
  • Afterword Kizuna
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Japanese glossary
  • References.

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