Introduction. Women in Japanese Academia: Voices of Foreign Female University Teachers by Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie L. Cook
Abstract
This introduction, written by the three editors, gives an overview of the rationale and contents of the edited volume. The book is a collection of narratives, or stories. Each chapter highlighting particular issues that shape the personal and professional lives of foreign women teaching in Japanese higher education. The editors explain in this introduction that the authors of the contributing chapters reflect and analyze their experiences so that their “autobiographical stories shed light not just on the lives of specific individuals, but on certain themes that are relevant in a much broader way” (Vandrick, 2013, p. x). Integrated into the multiple stories that comprise our lives are the many identities that we hold for ourselves. These identities are situated in the many roles that we carry over our lives and careers—teacher, researcher, administrator, coordinator, mentor, student, mother, spouse, among others—all couched in our gendered identities.
About the Contributors
Diane Hawley Nagatomo has been living and teaching in Japan since 1979. She’s a Professor at Ochanomizu University, and her research interests include teacher and learner identity and materials development. She has written numerous textbooks and self-study books for the Japanese EFL market. She is also the author of Exploring Japanese University English Teachers’ Professional Identity and Identity, Gender and Teaching English in Japan, both published by Multilingual Matters.
Kathleen A. Brown has been living and teaching in Japan since 1986. She is currently a Professor at Kurume University. She received an EdD from Temple University Japan in 2010. Her research interests include needs assessment, curriculum development, program evaluation, and concepts of gender in research and education.
Melodie L. Cook has been teaching in Japan and Canada since 1992. Her research interests include teacher education, expatriate experiences with high-stakes testing in Japan, expatriate experiences with supplementary education in Japan, and more recently, working with foster and adoptive children in Japanese schools. She is a Professor at the University of Niigata Prefecture and the mother of adoptive and foster children.
Citation
Nagatomo, D. H., Brown, K. A., & Cook, M. L. (2020). Introduction. Women in Japanese academia: Voices of foreign female university teachers In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter (pp. xi-xix). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/i
This introduction, written by the three editors, gives an overview of the rationale and contents of the edited volume. The book is a collection of narratives, or stories. Each chapter highlighting particular issues that shape the personal and professional lives of foreign women teaching in Japanese higher education. The editors explain in this introduction that the authors of the contributing chapters reflect and analyze their experiences so that their “autobiographical stories shed light not just on the lives of specific individuals, but on certain themes that are relevant in a much broader way” (Vandrick, 2013, p. x). Integrated into the multiple stories that comprise our lives are the many identities that we hold for ourselves. These identities are situated in the many roles that we carry over our lives and careers—teacher, researcher, administrator, coordinator, mentor, student, mother, spouse, among others—all couched in our gendered identities.
About the Contributors
Diane Hawley Nagatomo has been living and teaching in Japan since 1979. She’s a Professor at Ochanomizu University, and her research interests include teacher and learner identity and materials development. She has written numerous textbooks and self-study books for the Japanese EFL market. She is also the author of Exploring Japanese University English Teachers’ Professional Identity and Identity, Gender and Teaching English in Japan, both published by Multilingual Matters.
Kathleen A. Brown has been living and teaching in Japan since 1986. She is currently a Professor at Kurume University. She received an EdD from Temple University Japan in 2010. Her research interests include needs assessment, curriculum development, program evaluation, and concepts of gender in research and education.
Melodie L. Cook has been teaching in Japan and Canada since 1992. Her research interests include teacher education, expatriate experiences with high-stakes testing in Japan, expatriate experiences with supplementary education in Japan, and more recently, working with foster and adoptive children in Japanese schools. She is a Professor at the University of Niigata Prefecture and the mother of adoptive and foster children.
Citation
Nagatomo, D. H., Brown, K. A., & Cook, M. L. (2020). Introduction. Women in Japanese academia: Voices of foreign female university teachers In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter (pp. xi-xix). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/i
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Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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