{"id":114,"date":"2011-05-05T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T23:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/?p=114"},"modified":"2011-05-05T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T23:08:46","slug":"enduring-contexts-nomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/2011\/05\/05\/enduring-contexts-nomi\/","title":{"rendered":"“Enduring Contexts”: Nomi"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the “Enduring Contexts” discussions, Tomoaki Nomi<\/a>, Southeast Missouri State Univ, presented some of his work on the link between socio-economic background and students’ academic achievement. He is drawing on data from Tokyo prefecture and focuses on elementary and middle school.<\/p>\n

In his paper, Nomi referred to the general decline of academic standards in Japan as a “widely recognized trend”. I strongly object to this view, as I also expressed in my comments on Hyunjoon Park<\/a>‘s contribution. In short, what is important about Japan’s PISA scores is that they have been interpreted<\/strong> (along with other data) to suggest<\/strong> a general trend of decline and this perception<\/strong> is pervasive, not whether this trend is actually empirically substantiated (which I doubt). Keita Takayama<\/a> has written<\/a> decisively about this issue and has recently been awarded the CIES’ George Bereday Award for the most outstanding article<\/a> published in the Comparative Education Review. In the end, this was more of a semantic disagreement with Nomi.<\/p>\n

For further reading, I would\u00a0 recommend Nomi’s Japan Focus<\/a> article: “Inequality and Japanese Education: Urgent Choices<\/a>“. For a different view articulated most prominently by Takehiko Kariya, see “Misinterpreting Globalization in the Context of Japanese Education Policy<\/a>” in Asia Pacific Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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