A Conversation with Joy Hendry

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Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology

Recorded 10 December 2017, Kyoto, Japan

This episode's guest is Joy Hendry, emeritus professor of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. Joy discusses her experiences and research related to early childhood education in Japan in the early 1980s.

Episode Summary

Intro 0:54
Reasons for doing research on early childhood education in Japan 2:05
Comparing Japanese and UK experiences, “Becoming Japanese” (see Publications listing below) 3:40
What is “Becoming Japanese”?; expectations on young children 11:25
Honne (“true face”) and tatemae (“façade”) 12:40
The role of teachers and differences experienced between Japan and the UK 16:09
“Special needs” 16:40
Outro 16:54

Publications mentioned in this episode

Joy Hendry, Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child (University of Hawaii Press, 1986)

Kuroyanagi Tetsuko, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Kodansha International (March 23, 2012)

Music used with kind permission of the performer, shamisen master Koji Yamaguchi.

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