​Life and Education in Japan Series

Published Titles

  • Book 1. Teacher Narratives From the Eikaiwa Classroom: Moving Beyond "McEnglish." Edited by Daniel Hooper and Natasha Hashimoto. Read more....
  • ​Book 2. Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From our Quarter.  Edited by Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Cook. Read more
  • Book 3. Intercultural Families and Education in Japan: Experiences, Issues, and Challenges. Edited by Melodie Lorie Cook and Louise George Kittaka. Read more... 
  • Book 4. An autoethnography of Teaching English in Japan: Bridging Life and Academia. ​Sanae Oda-Sheehan Read more...
  • Book 5. ​Multiculturalism, Language, and Race in English Education in Japan: Agency, Pedagogy, and Reckoning. Edited by Gregory Paul Glasgow [Read more...]
  • Book 6. ​Cultivating Critical Friendships Through Reflective Practice: Cases from Japan. Edited by Adrianne Verla Uchida and Jennie Roloff Rothman [Read more...]
  • Book 7. Barrier-Free Instruction in Japan: Recommendations for Teachers at all Levels of Schooling. Edited by Alex Burke, Davey Young, and Melodie Cook [Read more...]
  • Book 8. Vulnerability and Resilience During Emergency Remote Teaching: Voices of Part-Time University English Language Teachers in Japan by Wendy Gough, Bill Snyder, Chiyuki Yanase and Colin Skeates [Read more...]

Forthcoming Titles

  • ​Beyond Kikokushijo: Teaching English in Japan After Growing Up Between Languages and Cultures. Edited by Aiko Minematsu, Risa Ikeda, and Maki Yazaki

Series Editors

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Dr. Melodie 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, working with foster and adoptive children in Japanese schools, and providing teachers with ways to help make their classes barrier-free in all ways. She is a professor at the University of Niigata Prefecture and the mother of adoptive and foster children. She has been a member of the editorial team at Candlin & Mynard since 2020 and wants to help authors and editors succeed in publishing about important and current social topics. Her list of publications can be found on her academia.edu page.
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​Dr. Anne McLellan Howard is a professor at Miyazaki International University with 25 years of teaching experience in a variety of contexts in Japan. Currently focused on teacher training, her research interests include teaching in under-resourced classrooms, evaluation in academic discourse, and language policy in Japan. In addition to her work at the university, Anne conducts annual professional development workshops for teachers in Bangladesh and is the chair of JALT’s Research Ethics Committee.

About the Series

Overview

An active and professional community of scholars live and work in Japan with many affordances and challenges that the context provides. In addition to navigating academic roles, international scholars are also faced with challenges related to language and cultural barriers. This series is designed to publish volumes on a range of topics related to the life of academics and expatriates living and working in Japan. Titles in the Life and Education in Japan series will be of interest to academics and expatriates living and working in Japan, or to scholars with an interest in Japan.

Target audiences
  • Educators including language educators living and working in Japan
  • Educators with an interest in life and education in Japan
  • Students and researchers interested in themes related to life and education in Japan
  • Expatriates in Japan and their families

Key features

Each book:
  • is written or edited by experts in the field
  • links theory to practice and back again
  • contains links to further resources
  • points the reader towards potential areas for research and practice
  • contains between 40,000 and 70,000 words 

Possible future contributions to the series could include books on:

  • Unique features of teaching contexts in Japan
  • Issues related to doing academic research in the Japanese context
  • Exploration of gender and identity associated with life in Japan
  • Managing family life as an expatriate in Japan
  • Approaches to classroom management in Japanese academic contexts
  • Psychology of language learning in Japanese contexts
  • Promoting foreign language fluency in Japan
  • Learner autonomy and the Japanese context
  • Self-access in Japan
  • Materials and methods in Japanese academic contexts
  • Native-speakerism, bilingualism, biculturalism and multilingualism
  • Sociological aspects of teaching and learning in Japan

Interested in writing for the series?

Prospective authors should contact the series editors giving a brief overview of their focus area. Depending on the scope, we will then provide a proposal form and solicit further details and sample material.

Topics should be well-researched and scholarly in nature, yet written in accessible and engaging style, involving the reader in issues in the Japanese context. Like all the Candlin & Mynard ebooks they are there to help readers encourage, explore and enable their thinking and practice.