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Hayashi, Akiko; Tobin, Joseph – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This is an ethnographic study of how two Japanese kindergartens are implementing the "yohoichigenka" policy aimed at reforming the Japanese early childhood education system. The cases of these two kindergartens demonstrate what happens when a top-down mandate reaches the level of individual programs. The programs creatively find ways of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten