Aizawa Shinichi

 This paper addresses the following two research questions: What role does senior high school choice play, in terms of the choices between public and private and between academic and vocational education in Japan and Taiwan? How do senior hig...

The aim of this paper is to unravel the change in the functions of the high school diploma using time-series variation in the structures of intra-generational mobility.<br>First, we try to set demarcation lines between birth years by examining int...

This paper examines the Japanese concept of gemba from the angle of sociology of knowledge. The concept of gemba has been widely used in Japanese schools, factories and offices, which can be literally translated to "the real scene" in English. How...

The aim of this paper is to investigate when and how the meaning of high school diplomas changed during the era of educational expansion in two senses:(1) ubjective and (2) objective. More concretely, it examines:(1) how people recognized high sch...

This paper investigates the issue of whether Japan Teachers' Union's (JTU) independent practices of aiming to improve(Kaizen) the method of Japanese mathematics teaching in the late 1950s to 60s succeed as an school policy to include students of v...

This paper investigates the issues of students' ability to learn and the necessity for educational knowledge from 1957 to 1969, using the specific example of English teaching. With a special focus on discourse in the movement of the Japan Teachers...

This paper probes teachers' images of intelligence and ability in the 1950s, with its main focus on discourses that were related to intelligence tests in the movement of Japan Teachers' Union (JTU). The paper suggests that intelligence tests funct...