Education – Page 3 – Frog in a Well

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Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading over Fukuzawa’s Autobiography for class, I ran across a nice passage: However much we studied, our work and knowldge had practically no connection...

Education/English/Web Sites

Social Management

Posted on February 10, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Sheldon Garon’s delightful book Molding Japanese Minds outlines how the Japanese state has entered the everyday life of its citizens. He focuses on what h...

Economic/Education/English/Japan/江戸

Early Modern Numeracy

Posted on February 7, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading Hanley’s Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture with my class (which is quite interestingly divided on the succ...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Education/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics

Historiographical Triangulation

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

This could be good, or it could be awful. Or it might be a good first draft, but the effort certainly seems worth noting (emphasis added): A middle school histo...

Academia/Education/Japan/Science and Technology

Japanese Universities in World Context

Posted on January 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Tomorrow’s Professor just forwarded a list of the top 500 universities in the world. As the introduction says Attempting to rank universities world-wide i...