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Huang, Futao – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
The purpose of this study is to explore impacts of the pandemic on the academic activities and life of full-time international faculty at Japanese universities, drawing on findings from semi-structured interviews with them. Main findings include three points. First, although the vast majority of the interviewees believed that the pandemic has had…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Taniguchi, Norihito; Takai, Jiro; Skowronski, Dariusz – Journal of International Students, 2022
The lack of exchange between international students and host nationals in Japan has long been a pressing issue, yet very little progress has been made to rectify this situation. In this study, we examined this issue by focusing on how international students in Japan perceive cultural contact with their host and home culture members during their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Taylor, Aaron – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
This research investigates the extent to which emotional labour is experienced by non-Japanese teachers of English as a foreign language in Japan, what coping mechanisms are employed and how it impairs individual performance. Understanding these issues is pivotal in improving the competitive advantage of these organisations and the productivity of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kitayama, Yuka – London Review of Education, 2018
This paper examines emerging far-right movements and xenophobia, and the challenges they pose for justice in education in Japan. It illustrates discourses on nationalism and cultural diversity in both education and wider society from the perspective of critical race theory. It explores the voice of educators, particularly about their concerns and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Stranger Reactions, Political Influences
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Morley, Louise; Leyton, Daniel; Hada, Yumiko – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2019
Internationalisation is a polyvalent policy discourse, saturated in conceptual and ideological ambiguity. It is an assemblage of commodification, exploitation and opportunity and is a container for multiple aspirations, anxieties, and affordances. It combines modernisation, detraditionalisation, and expansiveness, with knowledge capitalism,…
Descriptors: International Education, Universities, College Faculty, Educational Policy
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Kubota, Ryuko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Neoliberal ideology compels people to develop language skills as human capital. As English is considered to be the most useful language for global communication, learning, and teaching, English has been promoted in many countries. However, the belief that English connects people from diverse linguistic backgrounds in a borderless society…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language Attitudes, Human Capital, Qualitative Research
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
This article discusses the growing interest of scholars studying the connections between Asian and Hispanic populations and cultures. Scholars examining transnational communities and relationships often fend off skepticism from peers in longer-established, clearly defined academic disciplines who wonder about the relevancy of their pursuits,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Hispanic Americans, Higher Education, Stranger Reactions
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Miyake, Kazuo; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Investigates the possible relationships among the variables of infant's temperament, mother's mode of interaction, and the quality of the subsequent mother-infant attachment. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Kroonenberg, Pieter M. – Child Development, 1988
Examines 2,000 Strange Situation classifications obtained in eight different countries. Differences and similarities between distributions in classifications of samples are investigated using correspondence analysis. Substantial intracultural differences are established; data also suggest a pattern of cross-cultural differences. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants, Meta Analysis
Ujiie, Tastuo – 1985
The applicability of the Strange Situation procedure and the ABC typology for Japanese infants is discussed by examining data from studies in which the Strange Situation procedure was performed with Japanese infants. Findings of a study conducted in Sapporo, Japan, are discussed and their implications are pointed out. The discussion concludes that…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Kanaya, Yuko; Miyake, Kazuo – 1985
Maternal and infant interactional characteristics in early infancy were investigated in order to examine their causal relationship with later attachment as assessed in the Strange Situation. Although the results of rating for maternal variables at four months of age exhibited significant differences between the set (S1) composed of attachment type…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Coordination, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
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Takahashi, Keiko – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
Examined effects of the age of adult female strangers on the affective behavior of 60 Japanese toddlers. The first study investigated the importance of the age discrepancy between mothers and female strangers aged 23 and over 65. The second study compared toddlers' reactions to mothers, men and women strangers the mother's age, and men and women…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences
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Sagi, Abraham; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
A cross-national comparison of infant behavior in the Strange Situation was designed to determine whether preseparation episodes made any difference in attachment classifications and whether infant behavior before separation from mother was the same in different countries. Infants in different countries made similar primary appraisals of the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Takahashi, Keiko – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines the strange-situation procedure among Japanese mother-infant pairs and analyzes their behavior by comparing them with the data reported in the book by M.S. Ainsworth and others. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed. – 1986
The seven articles in this annual report concern aspects of attachment, social interaction among parents and children, temperament, affective behavior, and/or research methodology. Aspects of attachment and temperament are addressed in Kazuo Miyake's study of the "Relation of Temperamental Disposition to Classification of Attachment,"…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Emotional Experience
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