2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Regional cooperation in Northeast Asia: comparing policy across institutions and disciplines in the higher education sector in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
18K02739
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
ハモンド クリストファーD. 青山学院大学, 教育人間科学部, 助教 (50812434)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | higher education / East Asia / regional cooperation |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The research project was successfully completed. In this final year I produced one journal article and two book chapters related to the project, and gave two invited presentations. The findings from the project highlight a range of interconnected ideas about the current state and possible futures of regional cooperation in Northeast Asia. Variation in ideas about higher education regional cooperation connected to the distinctive underlying philosophies of different academic disciplines, with STEM fields focused on ‘borderless’ knowledge production and competitiveness, the Arts on cultural connections and creative collaboration, and Social Sciences on communicative action for the resolution of regional problems. Each of these idealized visions intersected in practice with government-level ideas of regional cooperation for global competitiveness, resulting in various tensions and the frequent repurposing of government policy rhetoric to align with institutional and disciplinary orientations.
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