This volume investigates the "global education effect"-the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices and perceptions-with a special focus on the dynamics of border construction, recognition, subversion, and erasure regarding "Japan". The Japanese government's push for global education has taken shape mainly in the form of English-medium instruction programs and bringing in international students who sometimes serve as a foreign workforce to fill the declining labour force. Chapters in this volume draw from education, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and psychology to examine the ways in which demographic changes, economic concerns, race politics, and nationhood intersect with the efforts to "globalize" education and create specific "global education effects" in the Japanese archipelago.

This book will provide a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in Japanese studies and global education.

About the Author

Neriko Musha Doerr received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her research interests include politics of difference, language and power, education, and civic engagement in Japan, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States, as well as study abroad. Her publications include Meaningful Inconsistencies: Bicultural Nationhood, Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook, and articles in journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. She currently teaches at Ramapo College in New Jersey, USA.

Reviews

'This is an impressively comprehensive, multi-disiplinary, and up-to-date volume on the cultural politics in global education in Japan. While other texts on this contemporary issue tend to be factual and descriptive, this edited book takes the very assumption of difference and border-crossing behind global education policy and discourses as a starting point to investigate how various identities-"native" and "non-native" Japanese speakers, "international and foreign students," and "Japanese" students, low and high-skilled workers-are constructed. The volume covers a wide range of issues from assertion of cultural homogeneity, essentialism, xenophobia, and the protection of "tradition," English hegemony, the intersection of education and immigration policies, and the complex effects of new institutional arrangements designed to "globalize" education in the context of low birth rate and dire foreign labour need. Global education becomes a prism to understand urgent socio-political issues in Japan from demographic changes, economic concerns, race politics, and regimes of mobility. A must read for everyone who is interested in Japanese studies and global education.' - Jennifer Chan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British

Book Information
ISBN 9781032173597
Author Neriko Doerr
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 390g