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Peer reviewedKuwayama, Takami – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
Off-campus training called "gasshuku" in Japanese middle and high schools is described. The training, which embodies Japanese cultural themes and values in the three-part curriculum of academic subjects, moral lessons, and special activities, functions as a rite of passage into adulthood in Japan's industrial society. (MMU)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cultural Maintenance, Curriculum, Extension Education
