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Gasshuku: Off‐Campus Training in the Japanese School
Author(s) -
KUWAYAMA TAKAMI
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1996.27.1.04x0644t
Subject(s) - rite of passage , sociology , rite , training (meteorology) , pedagogy , gender studies , anthropology , political science , law , geography , meteorology
This article describes and analyzes off‐campus training called gasshuku in Japanese middle and high schools. It shows how Japan's cultural themes and values are created and re‐created in the school. Gasshuku, with its highly structured events to regiment young students, functions as an initiation cere‐ mony or rite of passage into adulthood in today's industrial Japan. TheJapanese school as seen through gasshuku embodies the “trinity” of education: family (discipline), school (knowledge), and church (morals).