Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's Jet Program

by David McConnell

In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA and NEH combined) and more than six thousand foreign nationals employed each year in public schools all over Japan. How does a relatively homogeneous and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520216350
• ISBN13: 9780520216358
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 346 Pages