Study abroad of Indonesian students: examining from higher education of Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653249
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: ARIKAWA Tomoko 大阪大学, 国際教育交流センター, 教授 (30271448)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 教育人類学 / 留学 / インドネシア / 日本 / ヨーロッパ / 高等教育 / 大学院 / 研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has examined how graduate education system of higher educational institutions influences the experiences of international students in their research, using the researcher's longitudinal ethnographic studies on Indonesain students who have studied in Japan and other countries. The research also examined the historical development of higher education and research in European countries. The extensive studies on literature on higher education and research have clarified the impacts which have given to Japanese higher education and graduate education and research from European countries until today. The experiences of informants have been closely related with the graduate systems and higher education systems which the Indonesians have studied.
This research has contributed in clarifying the close relationship between Education and culture, in particular about higher educational institutions and international study at both micro and macro-level.

Free Research Field

教育人類学