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Direct linkToh, Glenn – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This article examines a case of what Olssen et al. (2004) call "managerial oppression" set in a faculty of international studies of a Japanese university. Japanese universities have, in recent times, been facing the financial pressures of a falling birthrate and dwindling enrolments. To remain solvent, some universities have had to…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, Power Structure, Bullying
Van de Graaf, John – Higher Education Bulletin, 1976
National patterns of power and control in higher education are key determinants of the conceptions of academic excellence and equality that prevail in particular systems. This paper examines five countries with predominantly state-controlled systems of higher education--West Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and Japan--and two with mixed control…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Philosophy
Download full textIoannidou, Elena, Comp. – 1999
This annotated bibliography presents studies that address the interplay of power and ideology in language policy. The studies assert that all the conflicts and oppositions between groups, disguised as either language, ethnic, or social movements, have the same basic aim: the quest for power and inclusiveness in the mechanisms of the state. The…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Diglossia
Clark, Burton R. – 1983
Basic elements of the higher education system are considered, along with variations across nations (the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, Italy, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and Thailand). Three basic elements of the organization of higher education system are identified:…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedReed, Steven R.; And Others – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Provides an overview of political corruption and its place in Japanese culture and society. Discusses recent scandals and efforts at political reform. These efforts are moving Japan from a "boss-patronage" system to a "civic-culture." Includes a table of post-war Japanese prime ministers and corruption scandals. (MJP)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Civics, Crime, Democracy
Van de Graaff, John H.; And Others – 1978
The result of an interdisciplinary seminar in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, this book reviews patterns of academic power in several nations. The authors are John H. Van de Graaff, Burton R. Clark, Dorotea Furth, Dietrich Goldschmidt, and Donald F. Wheeler. Separate chapters are devoted to the Federal Republic of…
Descriptors: Books, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Administration
