Peter Cave
Biographic Data
| ID | 251022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Cave |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Cave |
| SIGNATURE | CAVE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2101-8640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
History textbooks and political power in contemporary Japan
Contention about representations of history and the purposes of History education has long surrounded Japanese History textbooks. From 2012, the ascent of powerful nationalist Prime Minister Abe Shinzō raised questions about possible political pressures on textbook content. This article analyzes recent market-leading junior high school and high school History textbooks to discover how pedagogical format and content related to controversial topics…
Teaching the history of the ‘fifteen years’ war’ in Japanese junior high schools
Controversy has long surrounded the treatment of the 1931-1945 period in Japan’s history education. However, studies to date have largely focused on history textbooks. This study scrutinizes how controversial topics were dealt with in junior high school classrooms, through interviews with 21 teachers in three areas of Japan, alongside lesson observations where possible. It was found that teachers usually taught about some controversial topics, bu…
Tackling “Examination Hell” in Japan, 1920 to 1945
This essay examines attempts between 1920 and 1945 to tackle “examination hell,” meaning the pressures on children that resulted from competition to enter secondary school. Debates about “examination hell” centered on harm to children, to education, and ultimately to the nation. Arguments weighed issues of fair competition between individuals, alongside the needs of the state. From 1939, reforms to secondary entrance procedures manifested radical…
Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi
Journal Article Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi: Sengo nihon no gakkōka shakai no shūen to shūhen (Boundaries of Japanese Public Education: A History of Schooling Society and Its Borders) Get access Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi: Sengo nihon no gakkōka shakai no shūen to shūhen (Boundaries of Japanese Public Education: A History of Schooling Society and Its Borders) by Hajime KimuraTokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2020, vii + 258 pp., ¥3,600 (ISBN 978-4-13-051355-…
School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan
Since the late 1980s, school curriculum revisions in Japan have sought to promote capabilities and dispositions that transcend subject boundaries and are often labelled ‘competencies’ in international curricular discourse. This study examines policy documents over the period, showing how Japanese policymakers have sought to navigate pressures internal and external to Japan. It argues that tension between competencies and subject domains in the OE…
How to Think Like a Philosopher
Nation-Empire
Reviewed by: Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies by Sayaka Chatani Peter Cave (bio) Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies. By Sayaka Chatani. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2018. xiv, 347 pages. $55.00, cloth; $26.99, E-book. In this fascinating study, Sayaka Chatani examines programs designed by the state and social leaders of imperial Japan to "transform t…
Curriculum, instruction and assessment in Japan
Curriculum, instruction and assessment in Japan: beyond lesson study, by Koji Tanaka, Kanae Nishioka, & Terumasa Ishii." Asian Studies Review, 42(1), pp. 182–183
High-Stakes Schooling
In 2002, Japan implemented a major reform of its elementary and junior high school curricula. A five-day school week replaced the five-and-a-half day week, which had been gradually phased out after
Historical Interrogations of Japanese Children amid Disaster and War, 1920–1945
Historical research on modern Japan has often given insufficient attention to the lives and experiences of children and young people. However, this situation is beginning to change, as historians start to exploit the rich documentary resources, including children’s diaries and letters, that have been collected by institutions across Japan. Japanese children’s responses to disaster and war are especially well documented, and the articles in this s…
Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy
Journal Article Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy Get access Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy.ByYakira Elhanan. (Cambridge: CUP, 2015. Pp xiv + 283. Price £60.00.) Peter Cave Peter Cave The Open University, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 265, October 2016, Pages 846–848, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv092 Published: 23 September…
Introduction
Story, song, and ceremony
Japanese elementary schools of the Taisho and early Showa periods sought to shape children into ‘good Japanese’ through an imaginary communicated in a range of media and activities, intended to form children's dispositions through a combination of discipline and attraction. Ceremonies for the reading of the Imperial Rescript on Education, held on four major annual holidays, disciplined children into awe of the Emperor. In contrast, stories of exe…
Internationalising Japan
Reviewed by: Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice ed. by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens Peter Cave (bio) Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice. Edited by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens. Routledge, London, 2014. xiv, 212 pages. $155.00. Developed from papers presented at the 2011 conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, this edited collection of essays focuses…
Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia
Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture." Comparative Education, 51(3), pp. 463–464
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Japanese Colonialism and the Asia-Pacific War in Japan's History Textbooks
This paper examines changes between 1992 and 2010 in Japanese junior high school history textbooks' representations of imperial Japan's colonialism and aggression in Asia, using documentary study and interviews with actors in the textbook production process. Following a trend to increase textbook material on Japan's wartime aggression in the mid-1990s, after 2000 publishers approached this topic in contrasting ways, some expanding and some reduci…
Explaining the Impact of Japan's Educational Reform
Over the last two decades, educational reforms in Japan have aimed to promote independent thinking and self-motivated learning. This ethnographic study examines the effects of the reforms in elementary and junior high schools within a semi-rural city, focusing on Japanese (kokugo) and Integrated Studies (sōgō gakushū). It finds that while elementary schools have tended to embrace reforms, junior high schools have been unenthusiastic and resistant…
Nowhere to Run? Punishing War Crimes
The inescapability of politics? Nationalism, democratization and social order in Japanese education
Before 1945, schools were a vehicle for nationalism and modernization, with nationalism taking a decisive front seat from the 1930s onwards. After 1945, education was seen by the Allied Occupation as a key instrument for transforming Japan into a democratic, peaceful country. The main aims of education policy under the Occupation were democratization, decentralization and egalitarianism. After the restoration of Japanese sovereignty in 1952, cons…
What's wrong with eating people
Presents puzzles that deal with philosophical dilemmas such as whether gender equality is possible, the definition of love, and when action trumps intention
Morality, Patriotism, and Japan's New Curricular Guidelines
I respect the intention of Tawara Yoshifumi to alert the Japanese and international public to the designs of the nationalist right-wing on the Japanese school curriculum - with which designs I have no sympathy. However, the errors, exaggeration and misleading sensationalism in his article 'The Hearts of Children' (posted at Japan Focus on 25 August 2008) only serve ultimately to discredit liberal views on education, thus rebounding to the advanta…
Bukatsudo
Bukatsudo (extracurricular school clubs) are a longstanding feature of Japanese secondary education. These "communities of practice" employ a model of learning akin to apprenticeship, stressing imitation and repetition while socializing students into values and behavior demanded in adult society, notably in terms of a hierarchy of seniors (senpai) and juniors (kohai). In sports clubs, values associated with "spiritual education" (seishin kyoiku) …
Educational Reform in Japan in the 1990s
Despite overseas' observers praise for Japanese education over the last 20 years, within Japan the school system has become the focus of increasing discontent because of its supposed rigidity, uniformity, and exam-centredness. This discontent has given impetus to a series of educational reform proposals and policy measures during the late 1980s and 1990s. These reforms have gone under the slogan of 'stress on individuality' (kosei j shi), and are…
Educational Reform in Japan in the 1990s
Despite overseas' observers praise for Japanese education over the last 20 years, within Japan the school system has become the focus of increasing discontent because of its supposed rigidity, uniformity, and exam-centredness. This discontent has given impetus to a series of educational reform proposals and policy measures during the late 1980s and 1990s. These reforms have gone under the slogan of 'stress on individuality' (kosei jūshi), and are…
Educational Reform in Japan in the 1990s
Despite overseas' observers praise for Japanese education over the last 20 years, within Japan the school system has become the focus of increasing discontent because of its supposed rigidity, uniformity, and exam-centredness. This discontent has given impetus to a series of educational reform proposals and policy measures during the late 1980s and 1990s. These reforms have gone under the slogan of 'stress on individuality' (kosei jūshi), and are…
Japanese Colonialism and the Asia-Pacific War in Japan's History Textbooks
This paper examines changes between 1992 and 2010 in Japanese junior high school history textbooks' representations of imperial Japan's colonialism and aggression in Asia, using documentary study and interviews with actors in the textbook production process. Following a trend to increase textbook material on Japan's wartime aggression in the mid-1990s, after 2000 publishers approached this topic in contrasting ways, some expanding and some reduci…
Bukatsudo
Bukatsudo (extracurricular school clubs) are a longstanding feature of Japanese secondary education. These "communities of practice" employ a model of learning akin to apprenticeship, stressing imitation and repetition while socializing students into values and behavior demanded in adult society, notably in terms of a hierarchy of seniors (senpai) and juniors (kohai). In sports clubs, values associated with "spiritual education" (seishin kyoiku) …
Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia
Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture." Comparative Education, 51(3), pp. 463–464
Story, song, and ceremony
Japanese elementary schools of the Taisho and early Showa periods sought to shape children into ‘good Japanese’ through an imaginary communicated in a range of media and activities, intended to form children's dispositions through a combination of discipline and attraction. Ceremonies for the reading of the Imperial Rescript on Education, held on four major annual holidays, disciplined children into awe of the Emperor. In contrast, stories of exe…
Nowhere to Run? Punishing War Crimes
School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan
Since the late 1980s, school curriculum revisions in Japan have sought to promote capabilities and dispositions that transcend subject boundaries and are often labelled ‘competencies’ in international curricular discourse. This study examines policy documents over the period, showing how Japanese policymakers have sought to navigate pressures internal and external to Japan. It argues that tension between competencies and subject domains in the OE…
Historical Interrogations of Japanese Children amid Disaster and War, 1920–1945
Historical research on modern Japan has often given insufficient attention to the lives and experiences of children and young people. However, this situation is beginning to change, as historians start to exploit the rich documentary resources, including children’s diaries and letters, that have been collected by institutions across Japan. Japanese children’s responses to disaster and war are especially well documented, and the articles in this s…
Introduction
The impact of the Asian economic crisis on tourism in Singapore
In the mid 1990's the East Asia/ Pacific region was looking forward to an unprecedented period of tourism growth. Tourism is subject like any other industry to external economic forces and the successful implementation of tourism strategy is dependent on a continuing favourable economic climate. Signs of the economic timebomb in the Asia Pacific region had been evident, but largely ignored. The impact of the economic crisis has meant that at leas…
Educational Reform in Japan in the 1990s
Despite overseas' observers praise for Japanese education over the last 20 years, within Japan the school system has become the focus of increasing discontent because of its supposed rigidity, uniformity, and exam-centredness. This discontent has given impetus to a series of educational reform proposals and policy measures during the late 1980s and 1990s. These reforms have gone under the slogan of 'stress on individuality' (kosei j shi), and are…
Educational Reform in Japan in the 1990s
Despite overseas' observers praise for Japanese education over the last 20 years, within Japan the school system has become the focus of increasing discontent because of its supposed rigidity, uniformity, and exam-centredness. This discontent has given impetus to a series of educational reform proposals and policy measures during the late 1980s and 1990s. These reforms have gone under the slogan of 'stress on individuality' (kosei jūshi), and are…
Bukatsudo
Bukatsudo (extracurricular school clubs) are a longstanding feature of Japanese secondary education. These "communities of practice" employ a model of learning akin to apprenticeship, stressing imitation and repetition while socializing students into values and behavior demanded in adult society, notably in terms of a hierarchy of seniors (senpai) and juniors (kohai). In sports clubs, values associated with "spiritual education" (seishin kyoiku) …
What's wrong with eating people
Presents puzzles that deal with philosophical dilemmas such as whether gender equality is possible, the definition of love, and when action trumps intention
Morality, Patriotism, and Japan's New Curricular Guidelines
I respect the intention of Tawara Yoshifumi to alert the Japanese and international public to the designs of the nationalist right-wing on the Japanese school curriculum - with which designs I have no sympathy. However, the errors, exaggeration and misleading sensationalism in his article 'The Hearts of Children' (posted at Japan Focus on 25 August 2008) only serve ultimately to discredit liberal views on education, thus rebounding to the advanta…
The inescapability of politics? Nationalism, democratization and social order in Japanese education
Before 1945, schools were a vehicle for nationalism and modernization, with nationalism taking a decisive front seat from the 1930s onwards. After 1945, education was seen by the Allied Occupation as a key instrument for transforming Japan into a democratic, peaceful country. The main aims of education policy under the Occupation were democratization, decentralization and egalitarianism. After the restoration of Japanese sovereignty in 1952, cons…
Nowhere to Run? Punishing War Crimes
Explaining the Impact of Japan's Educational Reform
Over the last two decades, educational reforms in Japan have aimed to promote independent thinking and self-motivated learning. This ethnographic study examines the effects of the reforms in elementary and junior high schools within a semi-rural city, focusing on Japanese (kokugo) and Integrated Studies (sōgō gakushū). It finds that while elementary schools have tended to embrace reforms, junior high schools have been unenthusiastic and resistant…
Japanese Colonialism and the Asia-Pacific War in Japan's History Textbooks
This paper examines changes between 1992 and 2010 in Japanese junior high school history textbooks' representations of imperial Japan's colonialism and aggression in Asia, using documentary study and interviews with actors in the textbook production process. Following a trend to increase textbook material on Japan's wartime aggression in the mid-1990s, after 2000 publishers approached this topic in contrasting ways, some expanding and some reduci…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Internationalising Japan
Reviewed by: Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice ed. by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens Peter Cave (bio) Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice. Edited by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens. Routledge, London, 2014. xiv, 212 pages. $155.00. Developed from papers presented at the 2011 conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, this edited collection of essays focuses…
Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia
Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture." Comparative Education, 51(3), pp. 463–464
Historical Interrogations of Japanese Children amid Disaster and War, 1920–1945
Historical research on modern Japan has often given insufficient attention to the lives and experiences of children and young people. However, this situation is beginning to change, as historians start to exploit the rich documentary resources, including children’s diaries and letters, that have been collected by institutions across Japan. Japanese children’s responses to disaster and war are especially well documented, and the articles in this s…
Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy
Journal Article Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy Get access Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy.ByYakira Elhanan. (Cambridge: CUP, 2015. Pp xiv + 283. Price £60.00.) Peter Cave Peter Cave The Open University, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 265, October 2016, Pages 846–848, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv092 Published: 23 September…
Introduction
Story, song, and ceremony
Japanese elementary schools of the Taisho and early Showa periods sought to shape children into ‘good Japanese’ through an imaginary communicated in a range of media and activities, intended to form children's dispositions through a combination of discipline and attraction. Ceremonies for the reading of the Imperial Rescript on Education, held on four major annual holidays, disciplined children into awe of the Emperor. In contrast, stories of exe…
Curriculum, instruction and assessment in Japan
Curriculum, instruction and assessment in Japan: beyond lesson study, by Koji Tanaka, Kanae Nishioka, & Terumasa Ishii." Asian Studies Review, 42(1), pp. 182–183
High-Stakes Schooling
In 2002, Japan implemented a major reform of its elementary and junior high school curricula. A five-day school week replaced the five-and-a-half day week, which had been gradually phased out after
Nation-Empire
Reviewed by: Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies by Sayaka Chatani Peter Cave (bio) Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies. By Sayaka Chatani. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2018. xiv, 347 pages. $55.00, cloth; $26.99, E-book. In this fascinating study, Sayaka Chatani examines programs designed by the state and social leaders of imperial Japan to "transform t…
Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi
Journal Article Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi: Sengo nihon no gakkōka shakai no shūen to shūhen (Boundaries of Japanese Public Education: A History of Schooling Society and Its Borders) Get access Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi: Sengo nihon no gakkōka shakai no shūen to shūhen (Boundaries of Japanese Public Education: A History of Schooling Society and Its Borders) by Hajime KimuraTokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2020, vii + 258 pp., ¥3,600 (ISBN 978-4-13-051355-…
School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan
Since the late 1980s, school curriculum revisions in Japan have sought to promote capabilities and dispositions that transcend subject boundaries and are often labelled ‘competencies’ in international curricular discourse. This study examines policy documents over the period, showing how Japanese policymakers have sought to navigate pressures internal and external to Japan. It argues that tension between competencies and subject domains in the OE…
How to Think Like a Philosopher
History textbooks and political power in contemporary Japan
Contention about representations of history and the purposes of History education has long surrounded Japanese History textbooks. From 2012, the ascent of powerful nationalist Prime Minister Abe Shinzō raised questions about possible political pressures on textbook content. This article analyzes recent market-leading junior high school and high school History textbooks to discover how pedagogical format and content related to controversial topics…
Teaching the history of the ‘fifteen years’ war’ in Japanese junior high schools
Controversy has long surrounded the treatment of the 1931-1945 period in Japan’s history education. However, studies to date have largely focused on history textbooks. This study scrutinizes how controversial topics were dealt with in junior high school classrooms, through interviews with 21 teachers in three areas of Japan, alongside lesson observations where possible. It was found that teachers usually taught about some controversial topics, bu…
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