Emerging Issues in Educational Reform in Japan

alized in terms of a framework of a new politics of accountability in Japan. The framework is defined by a continuum of the balance between demand- and supply-driven forces. Of the three strands of reform, efforts to restructure higher education are closely related to changing demands of the student-clients. In contrast, professional self-evaluation suggests the dominance of the service providers in shaping school priorities and practices in the school community. Somewhere in between the demand-driven

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