eprintid: 10020546
rev_number: 9
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datestamp: 2014-10-31 12:51:52
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Al-Khanizaran, Huda Yoshida
title: The education of leaders in Iraq and Japan : a comparative study
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
note: Thesis: (PhD) University of London Institute of Education, 2007.
abstract: This thesis examines cultural continuities and changes over time in the education of
leaders in Iraq (1921-1968) and Japan (1868-1912), in times when both countries
experienced drastic political and social changes.
Based on documentary research, the analyses developed in the first narrative, on Japan,
describe the modernity projects in the Meiji period, the consequences of the
transformation of Shinto and Bushide , and the new forms of the bureaucracy and the
education of leaders. The focus is on the changing concepts of merit in Tokugawa and
Meiji Japan as these were defined in the education system. Similar approaches are
used in the second narrative on Iraq; the thesis describes the continuing roles of Islam
and of Arab tribal values as Iraq itself changed. It focuses on the changing concepts of
merit in Abbasid, Ottoman, monarchical and republican Iraq.
The education of leaders was shaped by struggles over both state and social modernity,
renegotiations of cultural traditional values which were based on religious and ethnic
values and concepts of merit, and the institutionalisation of these values in the
education systems at the state and social levels. While Japan transformed traditional
values and concepts of merit by combining them with foreign knowledge, Iraq
preserved much of its tradition, resisting modern pressures. Modern state and social
developments in Iraq and Japan have been decisively influenced by cultural traditions
in political, social, cultural and intellectual contexts.
New styles of state and cultural leaders emerged, differing in each country. Rapid
change was instituted in Japan and a new, coherent society was constructed, whereas in Iraq changes were slow and fragmented communities were created. As a consequence,
the patterns of the education of leaders in the two countries developed different styles
and different routes with contrasting long-term consequences.
date: 2007
date_type: completed
official_url: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498317
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 364
institution: Institute of Education, University of London
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Al-Khanizaran, Huda Yoshida;      (2007)    The education of leaders in Iraq and Japan : a comparative study.                   Doctoral thesis , Institute of Education, University of London.     Green open access   
 
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