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Kato, Reiko – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
This study focuses on the life history of a Japanese teacher who was actively involved in social and educational movements in the 1960s. There are traditions of teacher resistance against social oppression worldwide, and this study brings forth one such example in Japan. This study highlights how one teacher, collaborating with his colleagues,…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Inquiry, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Kusaka, Laura L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In this interview study involving the analysis of narratives collected from Japanese American professionals teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) who have lived more than ten years in Japan, I focus on how the participants negotiated their often contested identities in the TESOL context in Japan. I use the notion of identity…
Descriptors: Interviews, Ethnography, Autobiographies, Identification (Psychology)
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Kama, Amit – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2011
For those acquainted with Japanese lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues, "Queer Voices from Japan" can be good reading. But with only 1 of its 22 chapters informative for researchers, those interested in LGBT youth studies will only indirectly gain insight into a non-Western perspective on youth and sexuality.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Personal Narratives
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
The present study explores how scholars working in the field of applied linguistics, language policy and language education might best contest and negotiate the increasingly economics-driven language polices enacted at the institutional levels of schools and workplaces. The study focuses on Japan as an interesting case of incongruence between…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics
Silver, Jana L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Through observations, life history research, and qualitative data analysis, this study seeks to answer the question: Who and what influences elementary school teachers to ultimately use or not use art in their current classroom practice? This study examines the personal histories of nine elementary school general education teachers in the United…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Self Efficacy, Teacher Education Programs, Art Education
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Ishihara, Noriko – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
There has been an upsurge of interest in teaching second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics in recent years, but much of this effort has been targeted at adult learners. This article introduces small-scale informal instruction exploring the pragmatic development of 9-year-olds in Tokyo, facilitated through dialogic intervention on pragmatics using…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Sakamoto, Nami – Teacher Development, 2011
The author traced an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher's professional development by examining her narrative and identifying the transformation of her awareness or "kizuki". "Kizuki," which is unique to Japanese culture, implies a sudden feeling of inner understanding of a phenomenon and can be roughly translated as…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Ownership, Faculty Development, English (Second Language)
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Scott, Daniel G.; Evans, Jessica – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2010
This paper emerges from the continued analysis of data collected in a series of international studies concerning Childhood Peak Experiences (CPEs) based on developments in understanding peak experiences in Maslow's hierarchy of needs initiated by Dr Edward Hoffman. Bridging from the series of studies, Canadian researchers explore collected…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cross Cultural Studies, Researchers, Foreign Countries
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Tsumagari, Maki Ito – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
This article describes a study that examined evidence of the enduring effects of United World Colleges (UWC) education, arguably the only purely ideology-driven international education model. The study adopted an interpretive phenomenological analysis of an autoethnography by a UWC graduate. The study found that the graduate has incubated her own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Phenomenology, Ideology
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Kobayashi, Miyoko; Negishi, Masashi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
This article presents an interview with Professor Kenji Ohtomo who retired in March 2006 from the post of Dean, College of Applied International Studies, Tokiwa University, Mito, in Japan. Professor Ohtomo is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Honorary President of the Japan Language Testing Association, of which he…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Interviews
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Takatori, Shoji; Ofuji, Keiko – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
This essay is about the experiences, feelings, and thoughts of a Japanese teacher before and after an article appeared in a nationwide newspaper, "Asahi Shinbun". Here he discusses the reactions of administrators and students as well as his efforts in working with students in writing and producing a play about a lesbian high school…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Stone, Laurie – Business Communication Quarterly, 2007
Prior to a teaching assignment at Miyazaki Women's Junior College in 1993, the author accepted a 6-month contract to teach in the women's high school of the Miyazaki Educational Institute. In this article, she shares her first-day experience with a class of fifteen Miyazaki Girls' High School freshmen on their first lesson, a question-and-answer…
Descriptors: High School Freshmen, Secondary School Teachers, Females, Foreign Countries
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Ford, Keith – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
In this study, I explore the experiences of five Japanese returnees ("kikokushijo"). The participants recorded taped monologues or wrote narratives reflecting on their time spent living abroad and of returning to Japan. These retrospective life stories revealed four prominent themes of conflict: group orientation; bullying and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Conflict
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Ellis, Rod; Sheen, Younghee; Murakami, Mihoko; Takashima, Hide – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
Truscott [Truscott, J., 1996. "The case against grammar correction in L2 writing classes.' "Language Learning" 46, 327-369; Truscott, J., 1999. "The case for "the case for grammar correction in L2 writing classes": a response to Ferris." "Journal of Second Language Writing" 8, 111-122] laid down the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Personal Narratives, Form Classes (Languages)
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Jeffrey, David McLachlan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
Teacher diaries have wide-ranging applications for professional development, as they give teachers an increased sense of responsibility and seek new ways of improving their teaching. This article shares my personal experience of undertaking three teacher diary studies at two-year intervals and reveals how my teaching methodologies and philosophies…
Descriptors: Diaries, Self Actualization, Faculty Development, Personal Narratives
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