TY - BOOK AU - AU - Rohlen, Thomas P.;LeTendre, Gerald K. ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 0521495873 (hardback) SN - 2 PY - 1996///46 CY - Cambridge [England] ;;New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Teaching.;Learning.;Education KW - Japan N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-388) and index; Introduction : Japanese theories of learning / Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre -- Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery / G. Victor Sōgen Hori -- Building character / Thomas P. Rohlen -- Fostering social and intellectual development : the roots of Japanese educational success / Catherine C. Lewis -- And Tomoko wrote this song for us / Lauren J. Kotloff -- Honoring the individual / Nancy Sato -- Teachers and teaching : elementary schools in Japan and the United States / Shin-ying Lee, Theresa Graham, and Harold W. Stevenson -- Responsibility and learning : some preliminary hypotheses about Japanese elementary classrooms / Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis -- Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms / James W. Stigler, Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida -- The Kumon approach to teaching and learning / Nancy Ukai Russell -- Shidō : the concept of guidance / Gerald K. LeTendre -- The path to adulthood according to Japanese middle schools / Rebecca Irwin Fukuzawa -- Try, try again : training in noh drama / Tom Hare -- The Suzuki Method of music instruction / Lois Peak -- Conclusion : themes in the Japanese culture of learning / Thomas P. Rohlen and Gerald K. LeTendre; 5 ER -