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The Education of a Librarian and Educator: Professor Satoru Takeuchi of Japan
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Williams, Robert V. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
The early life and professional career of Dr. Satoru Takeuchi, a noted Japanese librarian, educator, and author, are explored here within the context of Japanese library education since World War II. Professor Takeuchi, now retired from the University of Library and Information Science (ULIS) in Tsukuba, Japan, has been an influential educator,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Library Education, Librarians
Sharing the Past and Future among Adolescents and Their Parents
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Shirai, Toshiaki; Higata, Atsuko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
This study explored how sharing past and future life events among late adolescents and their parents influenced the quality of their own time perspectives. Triads (N =104) of female students and their parents described three important life events from their past and future. The results showed that adolescents who shared past and future life events…
Descriptors: Biographies, Personal Narratives, Late Adolescents, Parent Attitudes
Learning Histories to YouTube: Learners' Lives as Curriculum
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Murphey, Tim – TESOL Journal, 2013
The article describes the agentive development of a group of first-year Japanese university students. They first individually wrote their language learning histories to grasp what they had been through in their junior and senior high school English education. They then analyzed the histories in small groups, discussing what motivated and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, Biographies
Tsuda Umeko and a Transnational Network Supporting Women's Higher Education in Japan during the Victorian Era
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Johnson, Linda – American Educational History Journal, 2010
Having limited access to colleges and universities offering women the same educational opportunities available to men, elite women of the 19th century crossed national borders for advanced study and teaching opportunities. The career of Tsuda Umeko, founder of one of the first private institutions of higher education for women in Japan, leader in…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Higher Education, Advocacy, Educational History
Intelligent Testing: Integrating Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice
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Kaufman, James C., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2009
The field of intelligence testing has been revolutionized by Alan S. Kaufman. He developed the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) with David Wechsler, and his best-selling book, Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R, introduced the phrase "intelligent testing." Kaufman, with his wife, Nadeen, then created his own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Testing
The Changing Academic Profession over 1992-2007: International, Comparative, and Quantitative Perspectives. Report of the International Conference on the Changing Academic Profession Project, 2009. RIHE International Seminar Reports. No. 13
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Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2009
The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) in Hiroshima University started a program of research on the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) in 2005. This research is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science as a grant-in-aid for scientific research headed by Professor Akira Arimoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Biographies