{"title":"Reconstruction of Transnational Educational Strategies through Parent-child Interaction: A Case Study of High School Students of Brazilian Schools in Japan","authors":"Rafaela Yoshiy Olivares","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.117","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, interest in studying at Japanese universities or studying abroad in a third country has increased among students enrolled in Brazilian high schools in Japan. However, although the career options of Brazilian school students have expanded, their parents’ perceptions of this situation and the ways in which these perceptions are reflected in their transnational educa tional strategies have not yet been clarified. Therefore, this study sets forth the following research questions to clarify how the parents of Brazilian school students reconstruct their transnational educational strategies as they interact with their children in the face of socioeconomic changes in Japan. This study examined the following research questions based on interviews with Brazilian high school students and their parents: (1) What educational strategies did these parents originally employ? (2) What factors affected chang es in these strategies? (3) What strategies emerged through negotiations between these parents and their children? (4) What difficulties do Brazilian fami lies face in implementing these new strategies? The results of this research revealed that the educational strategies of Japanese-Brazilian families are no longer premised on returning to Brazil, contrary to the findings of previous studies. Instead, both the parents and the chil dren of these families now envision the children’s futures in Japan or a third country. In other words, transnational education strategies are fluid. In the pro cess of family adaptation to Japanese society, these strategies are transformed by macro and micro factors, including parent-child interactions in the home.","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128975829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Future of “Japanese Schools” as a Community: Points of Discussion on the Liberalization and Personalization of Education and the “Small Schools” Debate","authors":"T. Ishii","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.147","url":null,"abstract":"As arguments for the liberalization of education grow more heated, how are we to approach Japanese schools as a community? This paper clarifies the basic concept of the “small schools” theory typified by the METI “Future Classrooms” (functionalist and individualist reorganizations), and organizes the relevant points of debate. In particular, the paper examines the issues of individuation and personalization represented by individual optimization of learning, promotionism (an attendance-based credit acquisition) and retentionism (an achievement-based credit acquisition), merit promotion and social promotion, and grade and class systems. Based thereon, the paper presents a perspective on the reconstruction of the communality and publicness of Japanese schools.","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116317344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transiting Representations of the Memory of the Hiroshima Bombing: Remediation as a Form of Intergenerational Boundary Crossing","authors":"J. Yamana","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128082701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paving the Way for World Philosophies through a Philosophy of Practice","authors":"Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.91","url":null,"abstract":"After the Second World War, philosophers from former colonies began to work on a hermeneutic better suited to the postcolonial context, as the frameworks adopted in conventional academic philosophy were considered to be in-adequate in this regard. This position had already been taken during the colonial period by thinkers like Rabindranath Tagore. Today, current work on world philosophies seems to be informed by similar concerns. This paper will first focus on the common ground between these positions by delineating rea sons for closely attending to the context in which philosophy is carried out as well as to the impact that this practice could, and does, have on the lives of those it affects. The paper will then revisit Tagore’s spirited appeal to reappro priate and recontextualise the aspects of Asian traditions that undergird common humanity in a world dominated by imperialism and colonialism, before briefly dwelling on current work on world philosophies. In a kind of boomerang effect, categories and","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122263743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reforming Pedagogy in Cambodia: Local Construction of Global Pedagogies","authors":"Mitsutoshi Takayanagi","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128281530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering the Possibilities of Digital Citizenship and Pedagogy: Beyond the “Post-Truth” Dystopia","authors":"Jun Sakamoto","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.97","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130544467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Imitation: Dialogue in Skills Learning of Artists in France and Japan","authors":"H. Okui","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.16.17","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most challenging questions in philosophical and anthropologi-cal inquiries on skill learning is how skills can be shared and acquired among people, especially when they cannot be easily verbalized or written. This paper examines the process of skill learning among Western and Eastern artists of puppetry. They learn the skill generally by observation and imitation, typical of “informal” education. However, most of the highly developed contemporary arts have their own educational formats in which skills are shared and learnt systematically, albeit flexibly, through interactions between instructors and learners, comprising not only verbal instruction but also gestures and facial expressions. These interactions are considered a dialogue, which underpins and complements the learning by imitation. Going beyond the traditional pedagogical view, in which knowledge is assumed to be ready-made and translatable into words, this paper sheds light on how the instructor and the learner inter-act and influence each other and how the skill itself emerges afresh in the dia -logue. The challenge also lies in rethinking education in the global age from the local and microscopic learning involved in dealing with the individual concrete body.","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127133472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inclusion and Wholeness: Rethinking Boundaries between the Formal and the Non-Formal in Japanese Public Education","authors":"Atsuhiko Yoshida","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.17.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131177084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Globalization and Japanese “Exceptionalism” in Education: Insiders' Views into a Changing System","authors":"Tsukasa Sasaki","doi":"10.7571/esjkyoiku.13.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.13.173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205276,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Japan","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128812518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}