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Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire] : The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan / Chisato Nonaka.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Perspectives on Language and EducationPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788921701
  • 9781788921718
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Akogare and My Study Participants -- 3. Akogare in Academic Literature and the Akogare -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Akogare and Gender -- 6. Akogare and Precarious 'Japan' -- 7. Akogare and Japanese Higher Education Today -- 8. Conclusion and Future Implications -- Appendix A: Questionnaire for Japanese University Students -- Appendix B: Questionnaire for Japanese University Faculty -- Appendix C: Visual and Textual Aids for Akogare -- Appendix D: Questionnaire/Interview Participants (Faculty: m = 35, f = 22) -- Appendix E: Questionnaire/Interview Participants (Students: m = 30, f = 45) -- Appendix F: The Students' Choice of Ideal Mother Country (with Reasons) and Overseas Experience -- Appendix G: Face-To-Face Interview Participants' (Students) Responses to the Miyamoto Case/Japaneseness Ideals and Overseas Experience -- Appendix H: Notes on Recruiting Study Participants -- Appendix I: Notes on Methods and Analysis Used -- References -- Index
Summary: The Japanese concept of akogare has become well known in TESOL-related literature in recent years, usually in the context of interracial sexual desire. In this far-reaching new study of the internationalization of Japanese Higher Education, Chisato Nonaka uses akogare as both an analytical lens and the object of enquiry, and ultimately reconceptualises it as the creation of a space where individuals negotiate and transcend their ethnic, national, racial, gender or linguistic identities. The book innovatively engages with the often controversial binary of Japanese/non-Japanese, and demonstrates how Japan (often thought of as a homogenous nation) may be at a critical crossroads where long-held assumptions about a singular 'Japanese identity' no longer hold true. The book has profound implications for how 'internationalization' can mean more than just the use of English.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781788921718

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Akogare and My Study Participants -- 3. Akogare in Academic Literature and the Akogare -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Akogare and Gender -- 6. Akogare and Precarious 'Japan' -- 7. Akogare and Japanese Higher Education Today -- 8. Conclusion and Future Implications -- Appendix A: Questionnaire for Japanese University Students -- Appendix B: Questionnaire for Japanese University Faculty -- Appendix C: Visual and Textual Aids for Akogare -- Appendix D: Questionnaire/Interview Participants (Faculty: m = 35, f = 22) -- Appendix E: Questionnaire/Interview Participants (Students: m = 30, f = 45) -- Appendix F: The Students' Choice of Ideal Mother Country (with Reasons) and Overseas Experience -- Appendix G: Face-To-Face Interview Participants' (Students) Responses to the Miyamoto Case/Japaneseness Ideals and Overseas Experience -- Appendix H: Notes on Recruiting Study Participants -- Appendix I: Notes on Methods and Analysis Used -- References -- Index

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The Japanese concept of akogare has become well known in TESOL-related literature in recent years, usually in the context of interracial sexual desire. In this far-reaching new study of the internationalization of Japanese Higher Education, Chisato Nonaka uses akogare as both an analytical lens and the object of enquiry, and ultimately reconceptualises it as the creation of a space where individuals negotiate and transcend their ethnic, national, racial, gender or linguistic identities. The book innovatively engages with the often controversial binary of Japanese/non-Japanese, and demonstrates how Japan (often thought of as a homogenous nation) may be at a critical crossroads where long-held assumptions about a singular 'Japanese identity' no longer hold true. The book has profound implications for how 'internationalization' can mean more than just the use of English.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)