Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland
While the Japanese education system and policy have been studied extensively, Japanese philosophy and thoughts have rarely served as a theoretical and methodological resource in the field of comparative and international education. Resonating with a current scholarly attempt to explore the possibil...
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While the Japanese education system and policy have been studied extensively, Japanese philosophy and thoughts have rarely served as a theoretical and methodological resource in the field of comparative and international education. Resonating with a current scholarly attempt to explore the possibilities and limitations of using Japan as an epistemic resource, I have experimented with drawing upon Japanese philosophical thinking, namely Watsuji Tetsurō’s (1889-1960) comparative phenomenological study, to analyse the current foreign language education reforms in Japan. In this paper, I tell the story of my thought experiment in which I explore autoethnographically how my epistemic mindset has changed during my PhD journey through a slow dialogue with Watsuji’s study on milieu, relationality and ontological inquiry into human beings. Aiming to multiply the epistemological resources for educational research, I analyse reflexively on the way in which I was destabilised by Japanese philosophy in (un)learning educational practices in Japanese contexts. In so doing, I explore how ‘foreign’ educational comparativists might be able to move beyond the storyteller role in foreign contexts or the expert role in home contexts and, accordingly, contribute to promoting a pluralistic knowledge production.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c6a711bbf687414db5857aa851ce35692024-02-21T12:28:48ZengCBS Open JournalsThe Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies2246-21632023-07-0141110.22439/cjas.v41i1.6886Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and FinlandOshie Nishimura-Sahi0Tampere University While the Japanese education system and policy have been studied extensively, Japanese philosophy and thoughts have rarely served as a theoretical and methodological resource in the field of comparative and international education. Resonating with a current scholarly attempt to explore the possibilities and limitations of using Japan as an epistemic resource, I have experimented with drawing upon Japanese philosophical thinking, namely Watsuji Tetsurō’s (1889-1960) comparative phenomenological study, to analyse the current foreign language education reforms in Japan. In this paper, I tell the story of my thought experiment in which I explore autoethnographically how my epistemic mindset has changed during my PhD journey through a slow dialogue with Watsuji’s study on milieu, relationality and ontological inquiry into human beings. Aiming to multiply the epistemological resources for educational research, I analyse reflexively on the way in which I was destabilised by Japanese philosophy in (un)learning educational practices in Japanese contexts. In so doing, I explore how ‘foreign’ educational comparativists might be able to move beyond the storyteller role in foreign contexts or the expert role in home contexts and, accordingly, contribute to promoting a pluralistic knowledge production. https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/cjas/article/view/6886comparative and international educationknowledge productionpolicy transferWatsuji Tetsurō |
| spellingShingle | Oshie Nishimura-Sahi Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies comparative and international education knowledge production policy transfer Watsuji Tetsurō |
| title | Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland |
| title_full | Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland |
| title_fullStr | Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland |
| title_short | Fūdo in Foreign Language Learning in Japan and Finland |
| title_sort | fudo in foreign language learning in japan and finland |
| topic | comparative and international education knowledge production policy transfer Watsuji Tetsurō |
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