Full Description
This edited volume explores how language educators and other stakeholders wrestle with notions of being, becoming and belonging in and beyond educational spaces in Japan. The volume contends for critical, transformational approaches to "language education" to be contextualized, sociohistorically sensitive and community-based. As such, the volume challenges critically-oriented stakeholders in language teacher education to revisit how they conceptualize and approach identity, experience and injustice manifesting in communities and language education (including theory, research, teacher education, policy, curriculum, materials development, teaching, assessment and hiring practices). The volume serves as a catalyst for readers to revisit what frames their own "seeing," and as a foundation to engage with their own contexts and communities.
Contents
Foreword, John C. Maher (International Christian University, Japan)
Introduction, Madoka Hammine (Meio University, Japan) and Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University, Japan)
1. Forging "Uneasy Alliances" through Multi-Scalar Networks of being "Japanese": Minority, Colonizer, and Outsider Positionalities of a Researcher-Educator, Neriko Doerr (Ramapo College, Japan)
2. Why Do I Have Mixed and Confusing Feelings about Japaneseness?: Reflecting on 20 Years of Teaching as a JFL Teacher, Saeri Yamamoto (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
3. ??????????????:??????????????????? (How Japanese am I? - Reflecting on Borders and Borderlines of "Japanese" in Myself), Kimiko Suzuki (Haverford College, USA)
4. Language, Identity, and Empowerment: A Zainichi Korean's Perspective, Jisuk Park (University of Toronto, Canada)
5. ???????????????????????? (Inter-School Community Mobility and Ethnic Identity Formation), Aena Noh (Kindai University, Japan)
6. The Linguistic Shift in a Language Island: Changes in the Community through a Research and Language Revitalization Project, Joy Taniguchi (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
7. Love and Hope in the Face of Darkness: Teaching and Training in Children's Homes in Japan, Kanako Ishida and Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University, Japan)
8. Yaeyamanness, Okinawanness and Japaneseness in Japan - A Duoethnographic Inquiry from Yaeyaman Language Revitalization, Madoka Hammine (Meio University, Japan) and Masami Hanashiro (School Teacher Emeritus)
9. Indigeneity and Identity: Who is/are Indigenous Amami?, Satoru Nakagawa (University of Manitoba, Canada)
10. Ainu Language Reclamation through Te Ataarangi Method: Nurturing New Ainu Speakers, Silja Ijas (Hokkaido University, Japan) and Kenji Sekine (Biratori Town Board of Education, Department of Lifelong Learning)
11. Revealing and Retelling Japan and Japaneseness through the Way English Is Taught: Scrutinizing Accounts of Encounters of an Identifying Nature, Glenn Toh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
12. An Autoethnography of Ungovernable Self: Encountering Language-Capturing Apparatus in the English Education Industry in Japan , Xinqi He (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Conclusion, Madoka Hammine (Meio University, Japan) and Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University, Japan)
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