Non-globalized ties between Japanese higher education and industry: crafting publicity-driven calls for domestic and foreign students with global qualities
Non-globalized ties between Japanese higher education and industry: crafting publicity-driven calls for domestic and foreign students with global qualities
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10.1007/s10734-020-00539-w
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发表时间：
2020-04-22
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5
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Kobayashi, Yoko
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作者：
Kobayashi, Yoko
为了解决日本高等教育问题的根本原因，本研究以文献为基础，探讨了日本高等教育与最具影响力的利益相关者之一——商界的权力关系。首先，它引起了人们对企业宣称的努力确保能够推进海外业务的人力资源与拒绝缺乏日语素质的国际学生和雇用只会一门语言的日本学生之间的不协调的关注。然后有人认为，这些相互冲突的话语和实践赋予了日本高等教育在修辞上全球化但实际上在日本主导的校园里非全球化的余地。此外，他们对日本学生内向型思维话语的再现与国际化项目的实施是同步的，这些项目减少了日本学生与国际学生之间的互动，前者将英语作为外语课程，后者则被安排在专门为他们设计的英语语言课程中。本文为未来的研究提供了建议，这些研究应该探讨日本商业世界不断变化的表现如何影响日本高等教育（非）全球化政策、实践以及围绕日本和国际学生的话语。
Addressing the root cause of Japanese higher education problems, the present literature-based study explores Japanese higher education's power relationship with one of the most influential stakeholders, the business world. It first draws attention to the incongruity between the business enterprises' proclaimed struggle with the securement of human resources capable of advancing overseas business and their rejection of international students deficient in Japanese(ness) qualities and employment of monolingual Japanese students. It is then argued that these conflicting discourses and practices have granted Japan's higher education leeway to be rhetorically global but practically non-global on Japanese-dominant campuses. Moreover, their reproduction of Japanese students' inward-looking mentality discourse is in synchronization with the implementation of internationalization programs that minimize interaction between Japanese and international students, with the former taking English as a foreign language classes and the latter placed in English-medium ones specifically designed for them. Suggestions are provided for future research that should explore how the Japanese business world's changing performance impinges on Japanese higher education's (non-) globalization policies, practices, and discourses centering around Japanese and international students.