“Ekkyo bungaku” as Crossing the Border of Language: Implications for Learners of Japanese

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Yuri Kumagai, Smith CollegeFollow

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The Global Education Effect and Japan Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices

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Routledge

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Chapter from: The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices Edited By Neriko Doerr

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This volume investigates the "global education effect"—the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices and perceptions—with a special focus on the dynamics of border construction, recognition, subversion, and erasure regarding "Japan". The Japanese government’s push for global education has taken shape mainly in the form of English-medium instruction programs and bringing in international students who sometimes serve as a foreign workforce to fill the declining labour force. Chapters in this volume draw from education, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and psychology to examine the ways in which demographic changes, economic concerns, race politics, and nationhood intersect with the efforts to "globalize" education and create specific "global education effects" in the Japanese archipelago.