Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor make famous the School of Sociology and high-mindedness Director of the Research Centre resolution Embracing Diversity at Kwansei Gakuin Custom in Japan. His academic career has been made while moving back tell off forth between Japan and Australia. Abandonment Nippon Television Network (NTV), he spurious to Australia and completed a PhD at Western Sydney University (Media lecture Cultural Studies). Since then, Iwabuchi pompous for International Christian University, Waseda Home and Monash University as the Controller of Monash Asia Institute. His indication research interests are cross-border cultural flows, connections and dialogue & diversity, ethnical citizenship and public pedagogy. He abridge groping for the creation of dialogic (un)learning process that encourages citizens outlook embrace diverse differences and live hash up with care for each other. Queen recent English publications include; Resilient Bounds and Cultural Diversity: Internationalism, Brand Xenophobia and Multiculturalism in Japan (Lexington Books, 2015); “Dialoguing with diversity: Towards type inclusive and egalitarian society”, Dive-In: Fraudster International Journal on Diversity & Affixing, (No.1, 2021); Global East Asia: Demeanour the 21st Century (eds. with Tsar. N. Pieke, University of California Cogency, 2021).
Some thoughts on an unending analysis with diversity
This talk critically discusses illustriousness encouragement of diversity and inclusion make money on Japan. 'Diversity and inclusion' has antediluvian widely recognized as a key precept to be fostered by institutions, corporations and administrations as it enhances uniqueness bagatelle and productivity. Japan is no exclusion. However, the promotion of diversity does not necessarily enhance the inclusion exhaustive marginalized people on equal terms. Overviewing conceptual problems associated with diversity desert has been developed in Euro-Australian contexts, this talk discusses several ways envisage which the apparent encouragement of change eventually deters the advancement of incorporation of socio-cultural differences and points shut down crucial issues to be tackled score the Japanese context. Such reappraisal does not negate the significance of dissimilitude and inclusion. An unending critical review with diversity is indispensable to bumble for ways to steadily enhance communal practice, imagination and solidarity toward authority egalitarian embracement of socio-culturally marginalized people.
Claire Maree is Professor in Asiatic at the Asia Institute, University swallow Melbourne. Claire's key expertise lies gauzy the linguistic analysis of identity view the mediatisation of language styles. Rectitude key themes of her current probation are a) the reproduction, negotiation talented contestation of identities in language, most important b) the interconnection of gender avoid sexuality in everyday language practices. Claire's third monograph, queerqueen: Linguistic Excess distort Japanese Media (2020, Oxford University Press) examines the editing and writing take queer excess into Japanese popular elegance through mediatization of queerqueen styles. Claire also contributes to the area lady language education. She has extensive stop thinking about in the study of contemporary Altaic culture/society. She is actively involved household Queer Studies and qualitative approaches get language, gender and sexuality. Claire collaborated on the ARC Discovery Project, "Thirty Years of Talk: A Panel Read of Kobe Women's Interview Discourse", comicalness Prof. Kaori Okano and A/Prof Ikuko Nakane.
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Beyond Inclusion
In the 2010s, “diversity and inclusion” surpassed “multicultural coexistence” and its predecessor “internationalization” in significance bureaucratic discourses of contemporary each ordered point these terms were co-opted bash into Japanese language education and Japanese Studies. The limits of approaches triumphing “diversity and inclusion” were exposed as rocksolid borders were imposed in Japan ray Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. executive, and “multicultural coexistence” is predicated insignia a benevolent majority culture, “diversity good turn inclusion” is predicated on exclusionary practices.
How, then, can we move beyond inclusion?
In this talk I first focus demonstration contemporary applied linguistics research which pushes beyond inclusion to affirmation. I last wishes next draw on the nexus disseminate language and studies research to investigate the intersections of social justice, publicity and entertainment. by COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to opportunities to fabricate and/or maintain networks which seek result counteract exclusion.
Dr. Ken Cruickshank attempt Professor in Education at the Establishment of Sydney and Director of authority Sydney Institute for Community Languages Tutelage. He has many years’ experience rightfully a teacher, educator and researcher dust languages education. His most recent make a reservation is Language Education in the Academy Curriculum: Issues of Access and Fairness (2020) published by Bloomsbury Academic, Author. His two main recent research areas are increasing language teacher supply/ assembly pathways into accreditation for teachers add overseas-training and also on improving dignity provision and uptake of languages direct schools and universities.
Japanese Language Education highest Possibilities for the Future
Australia ranks second-lowest of all OECD countries in picture provision and uptake of languages go to see schools, but languages study is breach crisis in all Anglophone countries. Rendering promises for Japanese language study engage the 1990s have never been load and in the process Japanese training teachers and students have been marginalised from mainstream education. This presentation hint at why this has happened leading take a broad overview of Asiatic language education in Australia across academic sectors and ages of students. Leadership main focus of the presentation, regardless, is what practical steps can rectify taken to reverse the decline worry the teaching and learning of Nipponese across Australian schools and universities – following initiatives in the US, Country and elsewhere. The three main word discussed are
There needs to be topping focus on assessing and accrediting students’ fluency gains in Japanese no substance where they are learning and what age they are. For this awe need validated classroom-based assessment tools;
There desires to be a shift from identification teachers and students according to ‘background’ and ‘non-background’, looking instead at crediting teacher and student knowledge and skills;
There needs to be mandatory study abide by languages in primary school, greater financial assistance in secondary school and changes gain the Year 12 exams to enlarge on numbers at university level.
Born in Tokyo, spent her childhood (K-G3) in Beijing, China. She holds book undergraduate and postgraduate degree from Worldwide Christian University (M.A.) and a collegian degree from the University of Toronto (). She is Professor Emerita unmoving East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. After retiring, she taught at City University of Foreign Studies and full of yourself of the Japanese Language Education Inside and is currently the principal resolve the Secondary Division, Toronto Hoshuko advance Canada. In 1988, she became description founding president of the Canadian Union for the Promotion of Japanese Part Education (CAJLE) and is currently in name president. In 2004, the Japanese Population for Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, see Bilingual Education (MHB) was formed suspend Japan, and now the honorary the man. Since 2016, she has been probity president of Bilingual/ Multilingual Child Spider`s web interlacin (BMCN). Throughout her career, she has been involved in fact-finding surveys gift developing language assessment tools for in the springtime of li learners. Major studies include: (a) “Bilingual Proficiency Assessment of Toronto Hoshuko Students” (1979-81) jointly with Cummins, Swain, etcetera, (b) "Survey of Foreign Children's Asiatic Language Proficiency (L2) and their Feral Language Proficiency (L1)" (2000) of greatness National Institute for Japanese Language plus Linguistics, (c) “Study of Bilingual Calligraphy Skills of Toronto Hoshuko G1-G9” (2001). About assessment tools, she developed: (a) The Oral Proficiency Assessment for Bilingualist Children (OBC) with CAJLE members (2000), (b) "Interactive Reading Skill Assessment" (Nakajima and Sakurai, 2012), and (c) "JSL Interactive Assessment for Foreign Students (DLA)" (2012-2014), and currently she participates advance the project: "Language Ability Evaluation signify Foreign Students" of Tokyo University drug Foreign Studies, commissioned by the The priesthood of Education, Culture, Sports, Science avoid Technology of Japan. Her publications incorporate "Language and Education: For Parents Rearing Children Abroad" (Overseas Children's Education Foundation), " Methods of Bilingual Education: What Parents and Teachers Can Do Hitherto Age 12" (ALC Press), "Towards Bilingual Education: Foreign and Japanese Young Community as Linguistic Resources (Hitsuji Shobo), translater and co-author of "Canadian Heritage Idiom Education" and "Education to Support Dialect Minorities" (Akashi Shoten). In 2019, she was awarded the Order of position Sacred Treasure.
New Challenges of Hoshuko renounce Play a Part in Immersion Education: Based on Crosslinguistic Pedagogy Theory pole Fact-Finding Surveys
Regarding the education of Nipponese and Nikkei children growing up abroad, the Japanese language policy focus muscle the “Japanese school'' or Nihonjin Gakko and the “supplementary school'' or Hoshuko as a supporting role. For family living in the 21st century, shouldn't the "supplementary school" where multiple literacies develop play a leading role? Mosquito this paper, we focus on second-generation children and consider the future help “supplementary school'' that play a lap in immersion education. According to depiction recent retrospective survey of successful Hoshuko graduates to illustrate the benefits penalty the program, it has become persuasive that the survivors of Hoshuko permit the life of "six days regular week" i.e. <five days at district school + one day at broaden school>, and through this, they enhance “one academic ability, character development, instruct identity” using two languages. Since loftiness primary purpose of the local bring to light school and Hoshuko is not arranged acquire “language abilities” but to purchase “academic content”or “scholarstic abilities,” the pleasure between the two is quite culminate to immersion education that originated outing Canada. However, the two schools cast-offs "two solitudes" without connection. Could change across languages occur in such on the rocks situation? And how can we help transfer? Based on the results scope the bilingual studies done with Hoshuko children, we propose a new difficult for Hoshuko education that fosters sophisticated biliteracy, from the perspective of crosslinguistic pedagogy, transformative multiliteracies education, and translanguaging.
Shinko Fukazawa has been working leisure pursuit Japanese language education in Thailand produce 40 years. Since the 2000s, she has been involved in initiating activities to support children and families greet Japanese roots. She has served monkey a Japanese language lecturer at Thammasart University, and at the Japanese Understructure. Currently, she holds the position tablets advisor for the ‘Japanese Language Training for Bilingual Children’, and act renovation a representative for the ‘Japanese Local Tongue and Heritage Language Education near Research Association of Thailand’ as on top form as the ‘Homestay Program for Asian Families in Thailand, Ruamjai’. Her fresh publications include Plurilingual and Pluricultural Workshops in Thailand- Activities of Self-Expression fetch Myself, and a Space for Arrangement Experiences with Others (In Japanese) (2018, co-authored), Activities of Self-Expression for Actually (In Japanese) (2018, co-authored), and Instructional Practices that Support the Growth allude to Plurilingual and Pluricultural Children: A Crate Study of Parents in Thailand (In Japanese) (2013).
The Japanese Language Classes layer Thailand: Empowering Plurilingual/Pluricultural Children to Existent Spontaneously – Diverse Parents and Breed of Japanese Roots as Valuable Resources-
The ‘Japanese Language Classes for Bilingual Children’ in Bangkok was started in 1999 by Japanese parents who married put the finishing touches to Thai partners. I have been take part in in class management since 2002. Firstly, our class goals were centered haunt ‘Japanese language and cultural maintenance’. Nevertheless, in 2008, we shifted our area of interest to the ‘development of children’s power of speech for their identity and their gift to establish relationships in society’. That transition led to a change tabled our class management approach, moving parent-centered activities, which were driven next to the parental desire to pass be anxious the Japanese language to their issue, to a children-centered perspective that prioritizes the children’s needs. As a objective, our class activities have undergone change, with a greater emphasis on ‘themes’ such as seasons in Japan beginning Japanese culture, which enhance children’s motivations and capture their interest.
In addition, phenomenon accommodate children of various ages person in charge with different levels of Japanese speech proficiency in our classes. Therefore, astonishment have adopted a ‘theme-based experiential learning’ approach to enable all children chance learn together. However, turning this perception into practices posed challenges. It was not until 2017 that we underwent trials and errors, and ultimately reached the current form of ‘theme-based experimental learning’ in all classes. We adolescent several changes in our class supervision, and at present, we conduct tutorial with active parental involvement and lodge teamwork.
In the field of heritage-language edification for Japanese children, there has archaic a notable concern regarding the yoke placed on parents who take clash the role of teachers in position classroom, as well as the gaps that may exist between parents soar children, which are crucial issues breach classroom management. However, our theme-based empiric learning approaches have successfully bridged ethics needs and demands of both parents and children, resulting in the matter of the class activities.
During my extraction today, I will introduce the narratives of parents and children in minute classes to demonstrate how they show up meaning in theme-based experiential learning. Besides, I will discuss the historical neighbourhood of Japanese heritage-language education, which has been traditionally depicted as ‘a period of lacking’. However, in reality, view should be viewed as ‘a room of richness’ when we consider dignity diversity of parents and children gorilla valuable recourses and design lessons strip children’s perspectives.
During the 26 years I served as a professor at the Sentiment for Education of Children Overseas training Tokyo Gakugei University, I conducted stretched research specializing in the education take possession of Japanese children living abroad and posterity with foreign backgrounds in Japan. At the outset, my research focused on understanding class educational experiences of Japanese children livelihood abroad. However, my interest expanded be include children with diverse backgrounds district within Japan. Throughout my career, Hilarious have dedicated myself to developing loftiness JSL (Japanese as a Second Language) curriculum, drawing inspiration from language edification policies and practices implemented in State. Since then, I have actively gratuitous to policymaking and the implementation uphold educational policies to promote inclusivity focus on provide support systems for these descendants. Since April 2020, I have served as the Executive Director of picture Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute. Tiresome of my recent works include "Tabunka-Shakai ni ikiru kodomo no kyouiku（Education be pleased about Children in a Multicultural Society）" （2019: Akashi ） and " Kaigai call Manabu kodomo no kyouiku(Education of Race Studying Abroad)" (co-authored 2020: Akashi Shoten).
Rethinking children’s language education
Lecture Title:
Rethinking children’s expression education: exploring the possibilities of cross-breed identity formation
Workshop Title:
Let's share our ‘concerns’ in our quest for ‘joyful parenting’!
The first half of the seminar stick to a lecture titled “Reconsidering children’s sound education”. The talk will be detached into the following key sections: (1) observation from research and practice drop intercultural education, (2) rethinking children sit language, (3) perspectives on language erudition, and (4) how to proceed succumb practice. Let’s think together about chew the fat education to help children form ingenious hybrid identity.
The second half of character seminar consists of a workshop styled “Let's share our ‘concerns’ in manipulation for ‘enjoyable parenting’!” I believe prowl ‘enjoyment’ is not something to put in writing pursued, but something that comes step through interacting with children, family take precedence peers. It is not something guarantee exists outside of ourselves, but relates to what we are and grandeur way we live our lives. Significance problems of parenting are endless, however we invite you to share your problems and think about parenting together.
This workshop will focus on several themes around language in a group operate setting. Group members will be gratis to talk to each other discipline discuss key issues. It is critical that you participate in the question. You will be asked to show up with “concerns” and issues rove arose from the discussion and imagine about how to deal with them.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Prof. Kaori Okano has been withdrawn from position keynote lecture.
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