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Download full textBartell, Carol A.; Willis, David B. – 1987
Guided by interpretive ethnographic methods and by instructional leadership concepts, this comparative study of secondary principals in Japan and America discovers characteristics of excellent principals and examines their values in relation to dominant cultural themes. The investigation applies anthropologist Clifford Goertz's assumptions (1973,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Willis, David B. – 1987
This anecdotal ethnography describes the student culture at Columbia Academy, an international school in Kobe, Japan. The paper begins by contrasting the affluence of Columbia Academy and its students with the relative austerity of a nearby Japanese middle school. The paper follows a typical day at Columbia, and describes the nationalities of the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Educational Anthropology, Educational Environment
