Learning in Likely Places

Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan

By: John Singleton (Editor), Roy Pea (Editor), John Seely Brown (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 April 1999

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Likely places of learning in Japan include folkcraft village pottery workshops, the clubhouses of female shellfish divers, traditional theaters, and the neighborhood public bath. The education of potters, divers, actors, and other novices generates identity within their specific communities of practice. In this collection of nineteen case studies of situated learning in such likely places, the contributors take apprenticeship as a fundamental model of experiential education in authentic arenas of cultural practice. Together, the essays demonstrate a rich variety of Japanese pedagogical arrangements and learning patterns, both historical and contemporary. The volume seeks to displace the current focus on school achievement in Japan with a broader understanding of the social context of knowledge acquisition. The cases demonstrate both the power of formal apprenticeship and the diversity of learning arrangements and patterns in Japan which transmit traditions of art, craft, work, and community. All cases respond to the call for an alternative focus on 'situated learning', an educational anthropology of the social relations and meanings of educational process.

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"This book makes several kinds of contributions...[and] is likely to fuel theoretical advances regarding the nature of situational learning." Catherine Lewis, Journal of Japanese Studies "...offer an interesting contrast, not only in disciplinary perspective, but also in the way in which these descriptions of learning are painted on quite different cultural backdrops. These two books, carefully studied, can serve to broaden our view of the possibilities. I recommend them for that purpose." Teaching and Learning Medicine

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List of contributors
Series foreword
Preface
Introduction: situated learning in Japan: our educational analysis
Actors, Artists and Calligraphers: Learning in the Traditional Arts
Transmitting tradition by the rules: an anthropological interpretation of the iemoto system
The search for mastery never ceases: Zeami's classic treatises on transmitting the traditions of the no theatre
Education in the Kano school in nineteenth-century Japan: questions about the copybook method
Seven characteristics of a traditional Japanese approach to learning
Why was everyone laughing at me? Roles of passage for the kyogen child
Potters, Weavers, Mechanics, Doctors and Violinists: Learning in Artisanal Apprenticeship
Learning to be an apprentice
Craft and art education in Mashiko pottery workshops
Craft and regulatory learning in a neighborhood garage
Developing character in music teachers: a Suzuki approach
Becoming a master physician
Weaving the future from the heart of tradition: learning in leisure activities
Work and Community Socialization: Diversity in Learning Arrangements
Moneyed knowledge: how women become commercial shellfish divers
The self-taught bureaucrat: Takahashi Koreikiyo and economic policy during the Great Depression
Learning at the public bathhouse
Growing up through matsuri: children's establishment of self and community identities in festival participation

Learning to swing: Oh Sadaharu and the pedagogy and practice of Japanese baseball
Good old boy into alcoholic: Danshukai and learning a new drinking role in Japan
Did an ox wander by here recently?: Learning Americanized
Learning to be learners: Americans working for a Japanese boss
Epilogue: Calluses: when culture gets under your skin
Selected glossary
General bibliography
Index
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Learning in Likely Places

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