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The Decline of Asian Studies in the West and the Rise of Knowledge Production in Asia: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Mobility, Knowledge Production, and Academic Discourses
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Kelley, Liam C. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
In recent years, the discipline of Asian Studies has struggled to adapt to a changing world and has seen a decline in student interest. A discourse about this issue has emerged that attributes this "crisis" in Asian Studies to various supposed faults in its forms of knowledge production, and that looks with hope to Asia for new forms of…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Student Interests, Declining Enrollment, Social Change
Recasting Our Relatives: Eroding and (E)Merging Filipino Connections
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Moniz, Jeffrey – Educational Perspectives, 2016
What is the future of Filipino in Filipino American? What counts as Filipino in Filipino American? Who counts as Filipino in Filipino American? Jeffrey Moniz poses these questions in light of demographic shifts over time and the advent of science and technology, including genetic testing. Moniz first explores indigenous perspectives and methods…
Descriptors: Filipino Americans, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Influences, Ethnicity
Transnational Identity: The Struggles of Being and Becoming a Japanese Female Professor in a Neo-"Kokusaika" Phase of Japan
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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
Transformational Learning and Role of Self-Authorship in Developing Women Leaders
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Collay, Michelle; Cooper, Joanne – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2008
Given the challenges of the workplace and the historic exclusion of women and people of color from positional leadership, this dual case study explores women's experiences in two graduate programs designed to support transformational learning of educational leaders. Data included participants' structured reflections on learning about leadership,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Females, Transformative Learning, Leadership
The Outsourcing Dilemma.
American Libraries, 1997
Presents a transcript of a conference call between Bart Kane (Hawaii State Librarian and advocate of the Hawaii/Baker & Taylor outsourcing plan) and Patricia Wallace (chair of the American Library Association's Hawaii Working Group formed to examine details of the plan) who debate the merits of Hawaii's model of outsourcing collection…
Descriptors: Debate, Library Collection Development, Library Planning, Models
Japanese Language School: Aid or Hindrance to the Americanization of Japanese Americans in Hawaii?
Shoho, Alan R. – 1993
A study examined the experiences of 60 Japanese immigrants to Hawaii (Niseis), aged 61-80, who attended Japanese-language schools as children. Using a case study oral history approach, the study gathered oral testimonies through semi-structured interviews. Historical documents were also used as primary sources of information about the schools.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Case Studies, Educational Attitudes