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Book SynopsisThis book records the history of Japan’s international cooperation in education from the 1950s to 2020. It provides a crucial overview of the nearly 70 years since Japan began engaging in international cooperation in education in order to record and document these efforts that range from basic to higher education to technical and vocational education and training, and the large numbers of people involved in their respective areas of activity and specialization. The book provides useful indicators for exploring new forms of education cooperation in this age of global governance and beyond. The authors include not only researchers but also field practitioners, such as personnel from the Japan International Cooperation Agency and NGOs.
Chapters 1, 3, 5, 9, 12 and 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Trade Review“The book under review … provides an excellent and exhaustive account of how Japan’s aid program in education grew over the last six and a half decades. … an exhaustive overview of the evolution of Japan’s aid policy over a long period of 65 years, of the kind presented in the book here, will certainly be of interest to a wider aid community and scholars around the world.” (Jandhyala B G Tilak, Global Comparative Education - Journal of the WCCES, Vol. 6 (2), December, 2022)
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Japan’s International Cooperation in Education: An Overview.- Chapter 2 Japan’s Education International Cooperation Policy before 1990: Policy Debates on the Interventions on Basic Education in Developing Countries.- Chapter 3 Japan’s Education International Cooperation Policy Since 1990: Between the Discourses of International Development and Domestic Factors.- Chapter 4 Japanese Aid to School Construction in Changing International and Local Policy Environments Since 1990s.- Chapter 5 Improvement of Teacher Classroom Practices for Quality Teaching and Learning: the Japanese Approaches.- Chapter 6 Capacity Development in Education Governance and School-based Management: the Japanese Approaches.- Chapter 7 Changing Patterns of JICA's Assistance on Industrial Human Resource and Skills Development.- Chapter 8 Features of Private-sector-led cooperation on Industrial Human Resource and Skills Development: Case of the Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships.- Chapter 9 Japan’s ODA for the Establishment and Development of Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries.- Chapter 10 The Transition and Significance of Accepting International Students with Japanese ODA.- Chapter 11 Japan’s Evolving Partnership with International Organizations in the Education Sector.- Chapter 12 Japan’s Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for Education: From Service Providers to Change Agents.- Chapter 13 Japanese ODA Loans for Self-Reliant Development.- Chapter 14 Fifty Years of Civil Participation: Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers.- Chapter 15 The Emergence and Transformation of Japan’s International Cooperation in Education: Analytical Exploration of Theoretical and Historical Factors.
