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Diversity in Japanese Education

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Naoko Araki

    1. Akita International University, Japan

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  • The book focuses on both learners and educators’ pedagogical experiences.
  • The book shows diversity in multiple interpreted ways.
  • The book presents one’s reflexive moments, diversified views on English language education, and praxis in intercultural classrooms and beyond.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Internationalization of Education: Non-Junjapa

    • Yuko Sato
    Pages 1-11

  3. Internationalization of Education: Junjapa

    • Yuki Wada
    Pages 13-30

  4. Japanese Students’ Experiences of the Internationalization of Education in Japan

    • Naoko Araki, Kim Senior
    Pages 31-41

  5. Building Global Citizens

    • Charles Kowalski
    Pages 43-63

  6. Diversity on a Global 30 ‘World Studies’ Program

    • Scott Browes
    Pages 65-81

  7. Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity in Japan in First-Year Writing

    • Paul Chamness Miller
    Pages 83-101

  8. “We have All been here Before”

    • Mary Frances Agnello
    Pages 103-116

  9. Hidden Diversity in the Classroom

    • Joe Sykes
    Pages 117-130

  10. ‘This is a Banana’

    • Jo Raphael
    Pages 131-145

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 147-150
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About this book

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. – Paulo Freire Diversity in Japanese Education explores ‘self-experience’ of individual learners and educators in Japan. The word ‘diversity’ is not limited to one’s ethnic background. Here, diversity refers to one’s pedagogical experiences and life experiences; to the norms, beliefs and values that impact such relations. These experiences and relations are fluid as they are shaped and reshaped in global and glocal settings. They are also reflected in praxis of English language learning and teaching in Japan. The authors’ educational backgrounds vary but they all share the common ground of being educators in Japan. Through being involved in learning and/or teaching English language in Japan, they have witnessed and experienced ‘diversity’ in their own pedagogical context. The book focuses on shifting critical and reflexive eyes on qualitative studies of pedagogical experiences rather than presenting one ‘fixed’ view of Japanese education.

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  • Akita International University, Japan

    Naoko Araki

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