Rational Decision Making and School-based Job Referrals for High School Students in Japan

Okano, Kaori

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“…It also involves helping them to set goals around their abilities and learning pathways. Some evidence, from Germany (Heckhausen and Tomasik 2002) and Japan (Okano 1995), indicates that established processes for goal-setting in relation to career pathways, including the setting of deadlines for making decisions, may help young people make effective educationemployment matches and form stable career pathways (Gianakos 1999;Nurmi, Salmela-Aro, and Koivisto 2002;Bornholt, Gientzotis, and Cooney 2004).…”

Section: Education-employment Linkagesmentioning

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Vocational imagination and labour market literacy: young New Zealanders making education–employment linkages

Higgins

Nairn

Sligo

2010

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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This paper explores the concepts of vocational imagination and labour market literacy, arguing that these are important elements in the crafting of effective education-employment linkages. Evidence of truncated understandings of both is found in the talk of 93 young New Zealanders in transition from secondary school to their post-school lives. We argue that development of labour market literacy and vocational imagination requires that young people crafting career pathways are able to work on identity formation, to discover and develop their abilities, and to recognise relevant opportunities and constraints, all within an infrastructure that allows clear career pathways to be mapped. Changes in New Zealand's economic and educational landscape, together with forms of career education that are illmatched for this developing landscape, have inhibited such an approach and so contributed to the truncation observed. We suggest that this analysis points to ways of enabling young people to make links between education and employment more effectively.

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Section: Education-employment Linkagesmentioning

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Vocational imagination and labour market literacy: young New Zealanders making education–employment linkages

Higgins

Nairn

Sligo

2010

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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“…More recent work in both the United States and Japan suggests that racial, ethnic, or linguistic minority students and their families may lack cultural capital or knowledge of how differentiation occurs (see Lareau, 1989;Kilgore, 1991;Okano, 1995;McDonough, 1997). Other studies, in Japan and Italy, suggest that institutionalized norms and organizational processes shape student preferences and even perceptions of what choices are available What Is Tracking?…”

Section: The Educational Consequences Of History: Tracking and The Trmentioning

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What Is Tracking? Cultural Expectations in the United States, Germany, and Japan

LeTendre

Hofer

Shimizu

2003

American Educational Research Journal

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On the basis of the TIMSS Case Study Project data collected in the United States, Japan, and Germany in 1994-1995, this article examines the phenomenon of tracking as part of curricular differentiation and student placement practices in public K-12 school systems. The authors document clear national differences in differentiation and placement measures and summarize the history of conflict over those measures. Analysis of respondent perceptions and beliefs about differentiation and placement (what people think "tracking" is) shows that nation-specific values and attitudes (i.e., cultures) determine which forms of curricular differentiation are legitimated and which contested. Dominant cultural beliefs about what students are capable of and the role that schools should play in educating them create different points of conflict over tracking. . Her areas of specialization are culture, cognition, and schooling; learning strategies and motivation; and beliefs about knowledge and knowing (personal epistemology). HIDETADA SHIMIZU is an Associate Professor in the

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“…Current researchers like Okano (1993Okano ( ,1995 critically portray the ongoing tensions that arise in an educational system where rigid academic outcomes imposed by the entrance exam system collide with teachers' own sense of fairness:…”

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The Problem of Japan: Qualitative Studies and International Educational Comparisons

LeTendre

1999

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Rational Decision Making and School-based Job Referrals for High School Students in Japan

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Vocational imagination and labour market literacy: young New Zealanders making education–employment linkages

Vocational imagination and labour market literacy: young New Zealanders making education–employment linkages

What Is Tracking? Cultural Expectations in the United States, Germany, and Japan

The Problem of Japan: Qualitative Studies and International Educational Comparisons

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