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British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2015

School Socioeconomic Compositional Effect on Shadow Education Participation: Evidence from Japan.

Ryoji Matsuoka

While shadow education, organized learning activities outside formal school, has grown greatly around the world, the relationship between formal schooling and shadow education has not been well investigated. This study is therefore intended to empirically test whether formal education’s structure (i.e. tracking) affects students’ shadow education participation by utilizing a nationally representative dataset consisting of 10th-grade students in Japan. Results of multilevel logistic regression analyses show school socioeconomic compositional and cross-level interaction effects on shadow education participation: students in high-socioeconomic status (SES) schools are more likely to seek shadow education lessons than those in schools of lower SES; and higher SES students tend to take shadow education lessons, especially when in high-SES schools. Additionally, the study finds that the school composition effect becomes relatively weak when extra lessons are free of charge, highlighting the importance of family economic capital to obtain additional learning opportunities.


Archive | 2018

The Growing Influence of Political Leadership on Teacher Education: Radical Policy Reforms in the Absence of Opposition Forces

Sawako Yufu; Ryoji Matsuoka

This chapter discusses the increased influence of political leadership over education policies during the past decades in Japan by providing a detailed assessment of recent teacher education reforms from periods not covered in previous studies. For this purpose, it will first describe how education policy-making has changed over the past few decades (including critical changes such as power shifting after reorganizations of government ministries), then provide a brief history of teacher education reforms in Japan, and finally scrutinize the contents of the recent reform proposed by the Central Council on Education Report 184. In addition, the chapter will explain stronger national control over teacher education and standardization of teacher education at universities across the country, with examples of the devaluation of academic knowledge in teacher education. Then, it will describe the absence of opposition to the radical policy changes by describing detailed conditions that seemingly inhibit universities and teachers’ unions from becoming influential over the direction of the reforms. The chapter will conclude with discussions on how and why the reforms will be less likely to achieve the professionalization of teachers, which is the goal of reform efforts in other societies.


Social Science Research | 2015

Emerging inequality in effort: A longitudinal investigation of parental involvement and early elementary school-aged children’s learning time in Japan

Ryoji Matsuoka; Makiko Nakamuro; Tomohiko Inui


Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook | 2014

Disparities between Schools in Japanese Compulsory Education: Analyses of a Cohort Using TIMSS 2007 and 2011.

Ryoji Matsuoka


Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook | 2015

School Socioeconomic Context and Teacher Job Satisfaction in Japanese Compulsory Education.

Ryoji Matsuoka


Social Science Japan Journal | 2015

Neighborhood and Individual Factors Associated with Survey Response Behavior: A Multilevel Multinomial Regression Analysis of a Nationwide Survey in Japan

Ryoji Matsuoka; Tadahiko Maeda


Behaviormetrika | 2015

ATTITUDES TOWARD EDUCATION AS INFLUENCED BY NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: AN APPLICATION OF MULTILEVEL STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

Ryoji Matsuoka; Tadahiko Maeda


Asia Pacific Education Review | 2017

Inequality of effort in an egalitarian education system

Ryoji Matsuoka


Social Science Research | 2018

Concerted cultivation developed in a standardized education system

Ryoji Matsuoka


The Journal of Educational Sociology | 2015

Parental School Involvement and Elementary School Children's Orientation to School:

Ryoji Matsuoka

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