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13 Globalization, Uncertainty, and the Returns to Education Over the Life Course in Modern Societies
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Introduction Introduction
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“Catch-up” Modernization and Education “Catch-up” Modernization and Education
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Post-Catch-Up Modernity and Globalization Post-Catch-Up Modernity and Globalization
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Agenda Setting for AHCER Policy Proposals Agenda Setting for AHCER Policy Proposals
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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42 Economic Globalization and Evolution of Education Spending in the Brazilian Federation, 2013–2019
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33 Can Non-Western Countries Escape From Catch-Up Modernity? The Troubling Case of Japan’s Education Reforms in a Global Era
Get accessTakehiko Kariya, University of Oxford
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Published:23 October 2023
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Abstract
Japan is among a few non-Western countries to have experienced both “catch-up” (with the West) and what might be called a “post-catch-up modernization.” This is particularly clear in the field of education. This chapter places these Japanese experiences in a global context and discusses what implications they have for sociological research on education as well as what theoretical contributions such a lens can contribute to recent debates on modernity and globalization. To explicate this argument, the chapter focuses on policy discourses related to education reforms in Japan. Japan is a typical case of a “late” modernizing country, one which intended to design and establish a “modern” education system rapidly and extensively, where modernity has been understood and interpreted distinctively from advanced “Western” modern nations. The Japanese experience undergoing the transition from the catch-up to the post-catch-up modernity is outstanding as a case of reflexive modernity in education in accommodating to rapid globalization. Discourse analyses of policy documents will reveal that Japan’s experiences indicate that reflections in modernity are influenced not only by their perceived past achievements but also by their perceptions of what is sacrificed underneath the achievements during a catching-up modernization.
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