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Japan: Culture, Education, and Change in Two Communities

reviewed by Victor Kobayashi � 1970

Title: Japan: Culture, Education, and Change in Two Communities
Author(s): Theodore Brameld
Publisher: John Wiley, New York
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Theodore Brameld again exhibits his admirably passionate ambition to come to grips with the big problems of education, culture, and society in the emerging age. Throughout his career, Brameld has not only consistently attempted to answer the major philosophical questions concerning the meaning of life, society, progress, and education in the twentieth century, but has also tried to make practical prescriptions as to the direction men of good will ought to take in order to solve major world crises such as the threat of nuclear annihilation. He has played moralist, prophet, social critic, and a teacher of "explosive ideas" while persuading his colleagues that an analysis of the structure and dynamics of cultures using the tools of the anthropologist may offer solutions to critical social problems. In this book, Brameld displays all of these facets once more, this time focusing on Japanese society and with the emphasis on anthropology. In his previous books, such as Cultural Foundations of Education, he offered the reader important insights as to his... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 71 Number 3, 1970, p. 526-528
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 1794, Date Accessed: 6/23/2018 10:17:28 AM

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