Books by Nobuo K. Shimahara

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text examines the daily life of elementary school classrooms in six nations with complex economies, an international presence, and salient minority and immigrant populations. Essays analyze classroom management practices and policies, as well as their historical and theoretical frameworks.

This book explores two very probing questions: what sustains teaching in Japan, and what is pressing teaching to change, presenting a cultural perspective based on ethnographic and other related data.