Some Japanese ways of conducting comparative educational research

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...

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Published in:Comparative education 2021-04, Vol.57 (2), p.147-158
Main Author: Hayashi, Akiko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anglophones
Caring
Collectivism
Comparative Education
contextualism
Cultural Differences
culture
Educational Research
Foreign Countries
Japan
Japanese-ness
Research Methodology
research methods
Simplicity
情境主义
文化
日本
日本特性
珍惜
研究方法
集体主义
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0305-0068
1360-0486
DOI:10.1080/03050068.2020.1805862