Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan

Singleton, John (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0521480124 / ISBN 13: 9780521480123

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998

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First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 376pp. Very mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and wear to covers, corners, and edges of black cloth over boards. Very faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 volume, a 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. All cases respond to the call for a new focus on "situated learning", an educational anthropology of the social relations and meanings of educational process.(Publisher).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521480124
• ISBN 13: 9780521480123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology & Archeology
  • Law, Politics, & Sociology

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Synopsis

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 volume, a 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. All cases respond to the call for a new focus on "situated learning", an educational anthropology of the social relations and meanings of educational process.

Book Description

In this collection of nineteen case studies, edited by John Singleton, the contributors describe the transferral of knowledge and practice within particular communities of Japanese artisans, workers, artists, musicians, and professionals. Together, the essays aim to demonstrate the rich variety of pedagogical arrangements and learning patterns, both historical and contemporary, through which the Japanese pass on both cultural and practical knowledge.