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Download full textArai, Yusuke – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2019
This paper examines the "subjectification" function of political education in democracy, considering the present situation of political education in Japan. In particular, from the point of view of political science, it focuses on the relationship between democratic theories and political education and considers whether the possibility of…
Descriptors: Political Science, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Transformative Learning
Kira, Naoshi – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2019
Democracy is in crisis around the globe, especially in the United States due to the results of the presidential election in 2016; it is now a bitterly divided society. In this context, this article reviews the democratic conception in education presented by John Dewey as his "Democracy and Education" celebrated its centenary also in…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Philosophy, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism
Direct linkKameda, Tatsuya; Tsukasaki, Takafumi; Hastie, Reid; Berg, Nathan – Psychological Review, 2011
We introduce a game theory model of individual decisions to cooperate by contributing personal resources to group decisions versus by free riding on the contributions of other members. In contrast to most public-goods games that assume group returns are linear in individual contributions, the present model assumes decreasing marginal group…
Descriptors: Productivity, Game Theory, Democracy, Decision Making
Peer reviewedYamashita, Hiromi; Williams, Christopher – Comparative Education, 2002
Democracy is deeply rooted in Japanese history but not in a form that is readily recognizable to Western observers. A study of student decision making in an elementary classroom found that student attitudes about what children should decide were shaped by students' prior experience of decision making, and that their style of decision making…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Democracy, Democratic Values
