Teaching and Learning in Japan

List of contributors Introduction: Japanese theories of learning Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre Part I. Fundamental Approaches: 1. Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery G. Victor Sogen Hori 2. Building character Thomas P. Rohlen Part II. The Emotional Foundations of Early Learning: 3. Fostering social and intellectual development: the roots of Japanes educational success Catherine C. Lewis 4. '... And Tomoko wrote this song for us' Lauren J. Kotloff 5. Honoring the individual Nancy Sato Part III. School and Classroom Models: 6. Teachers and teaching: elementary schools in Japan and the United States Shin-Ying Lee, Theresa Graham and Harold W. Stevenson 7. Responsibility and learning: some preliminary hypotheses about Japanese elementary classrooms Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis 8. Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms James W. Stigler, Clea Fernandez, and Makoto Yoshida 9. The Kumon approach to teaching and learning Nancy Ukai Russell Part IV. Path and Guidance: 10. Shido: the concept of guidance Gerald K. Letendre 11. The path to adulthood according to Japanese middle schools Rebecca Irwin Fukuzawa Part V. Artistic Pursuits - Old and New: 12. Try,. try again: training in Noh drama Tom Hare 14. The Suzuki Method of music instruction Lois Peak Conclusion: themes in the Japanese culture of learning Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre References Index.