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2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Impact of International Universities on Their Local Communities

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 18530389
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Sociology
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba (2007-2009)
Akita International University (2006)

Principal Investigator

JOHN Mock  University of Tsukuba, 外国語学部, 研究員 (20381337)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) JEREMY Eades  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (80232106)
NAGANUMA Naeko  国際教養大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (10381336)
TOYOTA Hiroyuki  関西外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (70341641)
DEBRA Occhi  宮崎国際大学, 比較文化学部, 教授 (10341653)
GREGORY Poole  筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 教授 (60307147)
THOMAS Hardy  慶応大学, 看護医療学部, 准教授 (00227612)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) MALCOLM Cooper  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (50369146)
TERAUCHI Hajime  高千穂大学, 教養部, 教授 (50307146)
ROGER Goodman  Oxford University, St. Anthony's College, 教授
KAWAMUR Ahiroaki  University of Findlay, 助教授
OTAKI Hiroko  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部・大学院
WATANABE SHUMPEI  筑波大学, 大学生
Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2009
Keywords国際 / 社会変遷 / マルタイカルチャー / 地域発展 / 地域における社会的インパクト / 大学
Research Abstract

Inconclusive, no statistical significance but suggestion from instrument and interviews is that there is very little effect on students, possibly because of self-selection. However, there is a small but interesting impact on local communities.

  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2010 2009 2008 Other

All Journal Article (1 results) Presentation (14 results) Book (7 results)

  • [Journal Article] "Localized constructions of knowledge: Understandings of ro-karu na chi within the anthropology of education", in A. Shinbo (ed. ), Local Knowledge-An Alternative Theory of Lifelong Learning2008

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory S.
    • Journal Title

      CommunPity Education in Japan (Nihon no Shakai Kyouiku), Tokyo: JSSACE Volume52

      Pages: 172-182

  • [Presentation] International' Education in Japan: Expanding Intra- Cultural Knowledge or Re(Defining) Cultural Boundaries Hardy, Thomas "International Education in Japan: Opportunities and Issues2009

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory
    • Organizer
      Philadelphia, PA Internationalization as the "End" of Tertiary Education: Multiple Perspectives from Japan (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      American Anthropological Association
    • Year and Date
      20091202-20091205
  • [Presentation] Japan's Bologna Process: Comparing Assessments of Japanese Students with MEXT's Discourse on Higher Education Reform2009

    • Author(s)
      Occhi, Debra
    • Organizer
      Philadelphia, PA Internationalization as the "End" of Tertiary Education: Multiple Perspectives from Japan (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      American Anthropological Association
    • Year and Date
      20091202-20091205
  • [Presentation] Exacerbating Educational Inequality: Impact of Rural/Urban Split on Rural Japan2009

    • Author(s)
      Mock, John
    • Organizer
      Philadelphia, PA Internationalization as the "End" of Tertiary Education: Multiple Perspectives from Japan (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      American Anthropological Association
    • Year and Date
      20091202-20091205
  • [Presentation] International Education in Japan: Observation from the US2009

    • Author(s)
      Kawamura, Hiroaki
    • Organizer
      Philadelphia, PA Internationalization as the "End" of Tertiary Education: Multiple Perspectives from Japan (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      American Anthropological Association
    • Year and Date
      20091202-20091205
  • [Presentation] Contesting Identities, Constructing a Textbook: Conflict and Negotiation in the Writing of an English Textbook for Japanese Secondary Schools2009

    • Author(s)
      Hardy, Thomas
    • Organizer
      Anthropology of Japan in Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Temple University Japan
    • Year and Date
      20091100
  • [Presentation] International schools for higher education in Japan: How does a class room and professor's language influence students' performance.2009

    • Author(s)
      Otaki, Hiroko
    • Organizer
      Anthropology of Japan in Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Temple University Japan
    • Year and Date
      20091100
  • [Presentation] International education' in Japanese HE: The ideal of critical literacy and the reality of cultural practice2009

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory
    • Organizer
      Smart City -Stupid Countryside: Demographic Implications of the Urban/Rural Split in Japanese Education
    • Place of Presentation
      JIES, TUFS
    • Year and Date
      20090912-20090913
  • [Presentation] Internationalizing the Curriculum in Japan: What is Being Done2009

    • Author(s)
      Hardy, Thomas
    • Organizer
      Internationalization and Tertiary Education in Japan: Multiple Perspectives (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      SEAA-Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      20090702-20090707
  • [Presentation] Do International Universities Make Japanese Society International?2009

    • Author(s)
      Mock, John
    • Organizer
      Internationalization and Tertiary Education in Japan: Multiple Perspectives (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      SEAA-Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      20090702-20090707
  • [Presentation] Measures of Internationalization: Assessing Japanese Students of International Universities with the Intercultural Development Inventory2009

    • Author(s)
      Occhi, Debra
    • Organizer
      Internationalization and Tertiary Education in Japan: Multiple Perspectives (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      SEAA-Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      20090702-20090707
  • [Presentation] International Schools for Higher Education in Japan2009

    • Author(s)
      Otaki Hiroko
    • Organizer
      Internationalization and Tertiary Education in Japan: Multiple Perspectives (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      SEAA-Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      20090702-20090707
  • [Presentation] International" education in Japan: Expanding inter-cultural knowledge or (re)defining cultural boundaries?2009

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory
    • Organizer
      Internationalization and Tertiary Education in Japan: Multiple Perspectives (panel)
    • Place of Presentation
      SEAA-Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      20090702-20090707
  • [Presentation] Urban/Rural Split in International Education2009

    • Author(s)
      Mock, John
    • Organizer
      Japan International Education Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Shiga University
    • Year and Date
      2009-04-25
  • [Presentation] International Education': The ideal of a pedagogy of critical literacy and the reality of institutional, cultural practice2009

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory
    • Organizer
      Japan International Education Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Shiga University
    • Year and Date
      2009-04-25
  • [Book] Gregory The Japanese Professor: An Ethnography of a University Faculty2010

    • Author(s)
      Poole
    • Publisher
      Sense Publishers
  • [Book] Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate, co-edited with Y. Chen2009

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory S., Ya-chen Chen
    • Publisher
      Sense Publishers
  • [Book] Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate, Rotterdam Eades, J. S., "Local thinking, global dreams: Aspirations and realities in higher education in the Asia Pacific2009

    • Author(s)
      In G. Poole, Y. Chen
    • Total Pages
      151-174
  • [Book] The Japanese professoriate

    • Author(s)
      Goodman, Roger
    • Total Pages
      15-32
  • [Book] Ideologies and practices of naming in a cross-cultural educational context

    • Author(s)
      Occhi, Debra
    • Total Pages
      57-72
  • [Book] Introduction

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory S., Ya-chen Chen
    • Total Pages
      1-14
  • [Book] Faculty members at a Japanese private university: Professors as conservative actors in an era of reform

    • Author(s)
      Poole, Gregory S.
    • Total Pages
      49-56

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Published: 2011-06-18   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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