{"id":104,"date":"2011-03-24T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=104"},"modified":"2020-07-06T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:08:41","slug":"beyond-thefour-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/beyond-thefour-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond The Four Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WillisRappJapaneseEduCoverPhoto1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105 alignleft\" title=\"WillisRappJapaneseEduCoverPhoto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WillisRappJapaneseEduCoverPhoto1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Education bureaucrats, who write Japan\u2019s sports policy, have actively looked to other nations to find new ideas. Sports policy reforms throughout modern Japanese history have reflected this global outlook, but though they have often been based on foreign policy precedents, they have also been adapted at the grassroots level to fit local Japanese needs. Based on an extensive review of Japanese sports and educational policy documents and observations from long-term (2008-2009) fieldwork with a Tokyo-area private co-educational university basketball club (men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams), as well as fieldwork at the Japan Sports Association\u2019s coach training and certification courses (2009), this chapter argues that some foreign policies that Japan has borrowed have fostered \u2018real\u2019 change, while some, especially a recent policy reform aimed at \u2018sports for health through science\u2019, have only \u2018imagined\u2019 it.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symposium-books.co.uk\/books\/bookdetails.asp?bid=76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Reimagining-Japanese-Education-circulations-comparative\/dp\/1873927517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0Read my chapter by right-clicking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/AaronLMillerBeyondFourWalls2011a.pdf.zip\">here<\/a>\u00a0and selecting &#8220;download linked file as&#8221;. It is a large .zip file so please be patient while it downloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Education bureaucrats, who write Japan\u2019s sports policy, have actively looked to other nations to find new ideas. Sports policy reforms throughout modern Japanese history have reflected this global outlook, but though they have often been based on foreign policy precedents, they have also been adapted at the grassroots level to fit local Japanese&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/beyond-thefour-walls\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond The Four Walls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-book-chapters","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}