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Takayama, Keita – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
This study examines one of the most notable manifestations of Japanese education's incorporation into the global education restructuring movement: the 2007 reintroduction of national academic achievement testing ("zenkoku gakuryoku gakushuu joukyou chousa"). In so doing, I aim to untangle the complex intermingling of national and global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
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Takayama, Keita – Comparative Education, 2008
Using the political-economic analysis of globalisation and education as well as a culturalist approach to education policy borrowing, the paper analyses the role of local actors, specifically, national newspapers and the Ministry of Education, in mediating the potentially homogenising curricular policy pressure of globalisation exerted through the…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach