Ryoji Matsuoka
Waseda University
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British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2015
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
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
Ryoji Matsuoka; Makiko Nakamuro; Tomohiko Inui
Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook | 2014
Ryoji Matsuoka
Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook | 2015
Ryoji Matsuoka
Social Science Japan Journal | 2015
Ryoji Matsuoka; Tadahiko Maeda
Behaviormetrika | 2015
Ryoji Matsuoka; Tadahiko Maeda
Asia Pacific Education Review | 2017
Ryoji Matsuoka
Social Science Research | 2018
Ryoji Matsuoka
The Journal of Educational Sociology | 2015
Ryoji Matsuoka