Abstract This article explores the potential relevance of Mindfulness-Based Programs, particularly Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), to support mission higher education by facilitating journey from information knowledge, and knowledge wisdom. It thus addresses problems distractibility superficial engagement caused overload aims prepare students for a fulfilling life. Based upon an in-depth dialogue among authors belonging different disciplines, this conceptual synthesis integrates various...

Globalisation and convergence in educational policy worldwide has reinvigorated, while rendering more complex, the classic theme of transfer. Framed by this wider pursuit new understandings a changing transfer/context puzzle, paper explores how an ethnographic 'thick description' might complement extend recent research. Specifically, it relates findings from extended work on attempt prominent Japanese university to 'import' Council Europe's Common European Framework Reference for Languages...

Social scientific research on Japanese youth experienced something of a boom in the 2000s and is attracting further attention following triple disaster 11 March 2011. But while advances have been made understanding young people’s relationship to work, marginalization, activism, for instance, premises this emerging field remain shaky. Despite cursory critiques associated labels recurring “moral panics,” dynamics problems not yet sufficiently understood. This paper draws well-known case...

Abstract This article provides an ethnographic account of 'international preschool' in Japan, describing how ideologies 'English' and 'internationalism' are produced consumed among the parents, teachers directors, their common goal socialising 'international' child. Keywords: JapanEnglishinternationalpreschoolsocialisation Notes 1. See Imoto (Citation2007) for overview these public discussions changing nature Japanese preschool system. 2. ESL = English as a Second Language. 3. ECE Early...

AbstractThis paper is an ethnographic study of weekly intercultural meetings held at alternative community space run by a large private university in Tokyo, Japan. Through 'team ethnography', the two authors this illuminate ways which modes learning were promoted and institutional boundaries transgressed unlearned. We argue that was made possible its spatial as well organisational liminality. begin with explanation Turner's notion 'liminality', provides our conceptual framework. This...

This article is an anthropological analysis of the recent policy reforms Japanese preschool system. It takes introduction nintei-kodomoen (‘accredited children's centre’) as a point entry to discuss historical, social and political debates concerning early childhood education care. The ‘dual system’ which characterized post-war system undergoing change. falling birth rate increasing number women choosing continue their careers after childbirth are bringing changes values motherhood...

This paper gives an ethnographic account of a contemplative class at elite university in the US. The class, which incorporates mindfulness-based practices, took on function unravelling time, and challenging credit-oriented culture university. opening up time credits allows for safe communal space to explore ‘vulnerability’ ‘authenticity’. As semester progressed, ‘authenticity’ came be recognised as ‘skills’ performed among some students. conundrum is that these terms are grasped through...

Reviewed by: Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education by Peter Cave Yuki Imoto (bio) Education. By Cave. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2016. x, 287 pages. $105.00, cloth; $35.00, paper; E-book. Selves examines the implementation curricular reforms junior high schools Japan. It is first only in-depth anthropological work that studies Japan over a critical period dozen years leaves us much to ponder on complex notions autonomy...