Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The IT Revolution in Japanese Education

by Jane M. Bachnik

Although Japanese universities have relied on information technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations are undermined by lags in implementing that technology. This innovative edited volume argues that lags in IT implementation in Japanese education are created by contradictory and challenging responses of the social environment. If this dialectic can be visualized as having hands, the right avidly promotes IT, while the left hand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739105647
• ISBN13: 9780739105641
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"