 | The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices Subjects: Education; Politics & International Relations; Higher Education; Education Policy & Politics; International & Comparative Education; Asian Politics; Education Politics; Teaching & Learning; Education & Development; Japanese Politics; 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. 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. |
