Some Japanese Ways of Conducting Comparative Educational Research
Some Japanese Ways of Conducting Comparative Educational Research
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日本进行比较教育研究的一些方法
DOI:
10.1080/03050068.2020.1805862
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Akiko Hayashi
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文献类型:
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作者:
林 安希子;Akiko Hayashi
This personal, tentative, self-reflective essay explores some Japanese ways of conducting comparative educational research. In this essay, I not only describe a Japanese style of conducting comparative education research but also do so in a Japanese way. The four key elements I discuss are: daijini (taking care), soboku (simplicity), nagaime (long perspective) and shuudan-sei and kanjin shugi (collectivism and contextualism). Like Rappleye’s and Takayama’s recent contributions in the 2020 special issue of this journal, my paper challenges the taken-for-grantedness of the Western philosophies, theories, and methods characteristic of Anglophone comparative educational scholarship. Like those contributions, this paper argues for the value Japanese perspectives hold for comparative educational research. For me, this means arguing for the value of research methods that are not inseparable from my being Japanese.