Study Abroad Students' Identification Practices, Motivations, and Learning Evaluations: Examining Heterogeneity and Fluidity

2019 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K04718
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: POOLE Gregory 同志社大学, 国際教育インスティテュート, 教授 (60307147)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 徳永 智子 群馬県立女子大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 講師 (60751287) ; 井本 由紀 慶應義塾大学, 理工学部(日吉), 講師 (90581835) ; DEBNAR Milos 龍谷大学, 国際学部, 講師 (90735292)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: Educational anthropology / Global education / Migration studies / Border construction / Study abroad / EMI

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

This project successfully conducted research disseminated in the following international fora: 1) A session organized at the Association of Asian Studies 2019 Conference in Denver, Colorado, USA. 2) Four published papers as part of the edited volume, The Global Education Effect and Japan (March 2020, ISBN 978-0-367-26218-1) in the Routledge series, “Politics of Education in Asia.” The main finding of our ethnographic study was that the term “abroad” alienates students who have found “home” at their “study abroad” destination. Analyzing data in terms of the notion of time, nation-state ideology, border construction, and the role of English, we discovered complex identification practices. Japan can be a home for diverse individuals, whether they identify as “Japanese” or not.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Making Borders of the Foreign Students in Japan: “Ryuugakusei” as Students, Workers or Migrants? (2019)
  • Author(s): Milos Debnar (Ryukoku University)
  • Organizer: Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 21, 2019
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] English, the Global, and Not Studying “Abroad”: Border Subversions in Japan’s English-Medium Campus (2019)
  • Author(s): Neriko M. Doerr (Ramapo College), Gregory Poole (Doshisha University), Roy Hedrick (Doshisha University)
  • Organizer: Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 21, 2019
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Multicultural Team Ethnography as Border-Crossing Practice: Reflections from Two ‘Returnee’ Academics at a Japanese University (2019)
  • Author(s): Yuki Imoto (Keio University), Tomoko Tokunaga (Tsukuba University)
  • Organizer: Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 21, 2019
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing new borders and identification practices in “Japan” (2020)
  • Author(s): Neriko Musha Doerr
  • Total Pages: 280
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-26218-1