Candlin & Mynard ePublishing: encouraging, exploring, enabling

Life and Education in Japan Series

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Series Editors

​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.
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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, 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. Her list of publications can be found on her academia.edu page.

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 ebook will:
  • be written or edited by experts in the field
  • link theory to practice and back again
  • contain links to further resources
  • point the reader towards potential areas for research and practice
  • contain between 40,000 and 70,000 words 

Possible 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

Structure of the ebooks in 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. 

Forthcoming titles
  • Expatriate Families and Education in Japan: Issues, Challenges, and Experiences. Edited by Melodie Cook and Louise George Kittaka 
  • Women in Japanese Academia: Voices of Foreign Female University Teachers (working title). Edited by Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Melodie Cook, and Kathleen Brown
  • Voices on Eikaiwa: Narratives from the Forgotten Foreign Language Classroom. Edited by Daniel Hooper and Natasha Hashimoto