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Lassila, Erkki; Uitto, Minna – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
This narrative research explores the tensions that beginning teachers tell about their relationships with students between the ideals they have, and how the teachers experience those relationships in the micropolitical and relational environment of their everyday work. The phenomenon is approached through stories told by three Japanese beginning…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration
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Pigott, Julian – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper examines how fleeting experiences exert a disproportionately powerful effect on the language learning motivation and behavior of university students. A thematic analysis of interview data is used to show how "significant incidents" have two principal consequences. The first, "anagnorisis," is an immediate, revelatory…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, College Students
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Fritz, Robinson; Sandu, Roxana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
Recently, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has produced several internationalisation policies to develop their notion of "guroubaru-jinzai" (global human resources). However, a lack of clear direction regarding theories and approaches about how to achieve these initiatives has created a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Nonaka, Chisato – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approached (though now tentatively postponed to 2021), Japan stepped up on its nationwide "kokusaika" ("internationalization") campaign to prepare for the big moment. This frenzied internationalization movement is not a new trend for Japan, particularly in the education sector where since the 1980s,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Foreign Countries, International Education
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Osler, Audrey – Multicultural Education Review, 2018
Teachers across the globe engage in day-to-day struggles for justice, often with support from unions and community-led groups. Teacher narratives reveal opportunities for building an inclusive theory and practice of education for social justice. I profile one teacher, a third generation "zainichi" Korean permanent resident in Japan,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Rivers, Damian J. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2019
This article utilizes an autoethnographic story-telling perspective in which I situate myself as a critical participant observer. Through critiquing the "situatedness of the self and others" in context, I share a selection of narrative snapshots concerning place and positionality as a white male native speaker of English (i.e. an…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Story Telling, Whites, Males
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Tabuchi, Megumi; Miura, Asako – Educational Gerontology, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of young people's reactions to changes in older people's generativity when wisdom is transmitted to the younger people. Participants included 48 male adults aged 63-77 years. Each participant was assigned to either the condition of "wisdom from experiences of failure" or the…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Males, Older Adults, Personal Narratives
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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
Zinck, Gerald W. – Online Submission, 2017
In the Japanese English education system, a distinct disconnect exists between the elementary and secondary education curricula. Elementary schools across Japan offer English classes, but adjusting to junior high English classes is often difficult for students. While the Japanese government reformed junior high school tests to aid student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Curriculum
Nagashima, Julie Takako – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation examines a pedagogy called Soka education that was founded in early 20th century Japan. Specifically, this dissertation offers an empirical and conceptual study that examines the application of Soka education in present day. After examining the historical and political context of Soka education, I explicate on Ikeda's (1928- )…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Rose, Heath; Montakantiwong, Anuchaya – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
With the growth of English worldwide there have been numerous calls for a paradigm shift from teaching English as foreign language to teaching English as an international language (EIL). While there is a growing body of conceptual literature for teaching EIL, the voices of teachers remain severely underrepresented in this movement. As such,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Global Approach
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Watkins, Satoko – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
The fostering of learner autonomy has become an essential element of modern pedagogy and an established object of research. There are many difficulties in providing evidence of learners' development towards autonomy, however, since it is not measurable in a traditional sense. As a learning advisor (LA) at a private language university in Japan, I…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Learning Experience, Personal Autonomy, Reflection
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Menard-Warwick, Julia; Leung, Genevieve – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
Translingual practice is an emergent theoretical perspective which emphasizes the capacity and disposition for meaning-making across linguistic boundaries. Following on studies of globalized workplaces that have focused on lingua franca English, this article explores translingual practice as represented in interview and blog narratives recounted…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Interviews, Multilingualism
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Kennedy, Eileen; Gray, Morag – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
Online students use highly emotional language to describe their experiences, indicating that learners do feel a great deal online. This paper draws on Wetherell's exploration of affective practice to theorise learners' responses to the pedagogical and technological online environment. Findings of a research project that focused on two cohorts of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Wada, Tazuru – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study is a qualitative inquiry of eight mid-career second language (L2) teachers' identity evolution. These teachers have or had full-time or tenured teaching experience in secondary schools in Japan. Since they were mid- and later career teachers, they have explored their development, what they are now, and why they keep growing.They have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Experienced Teachers
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