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Takayanagi, Taeko; Shimomura, Takayuki – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This paper addresses the life and educational experiences of Ainu women, using the framework of postcolonial feminist theory. It explores the extent to which two factors--gender and ethnic minority status--affect young Ainu women as they attempt to enter mainstream society. The authors analyse life history interviews from three Ainu women aged 25.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Feminism, Social Theories
Ofuji, Keiko – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
The "Dowa" (Human Rights) education program has become an effective method of changing concept and situations of "Burakumin," a group of people that has been discriminated against in Japan. One educational strategy was to speak out their personal stories, which has become a trigger to some sexual minority teachers to come out,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Education Courses, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality
Kawamoto, Yoshikazu; Shimizu, Hidetada – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2004
Burakumin, Japan's largest minority group, have been discriminated against throughout Japanese history for engaging in jobs that were considered to be defiling, e.g., slaughterers, tanners, and undertakers. Specifically, burakumin played the social and occupational roles despised by the majority Japanese, but those without which the Japanese…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Social Bias