Teaching Japan : A Handbook / edited by Ioannis Gaitanidis and Gregory Poole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaitanidis, Ioannis, editor.

Poole, Gregory, editor.

Series:

Handbooks on Japanese Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Japan--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book aims to offer ideas and examples of pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom. The basic premise taken by the authors begins with a question: What if stereotypes surrounding Japan were not pushed to the margins in teaching but took center stage and were exposed for the multiple ways that they can be used to learn not only about "Japan" but of various scholarly disciplines? The task then becomes constructing ways to challenge essentialist notions that do not seek merely to deny, but to shift the conversation constructively by encouraging engagement with a theoretical field from which to acquire tools to critically and effectively evaluate stereotypes of Japan or other societies. The result is a collection of carefully crafted case studies of syllabi that showcase pedagogies aimed at the deconstruction of concepts such as "Japan," "Japanese," or "Japanese society" while at the same time offering skills of inquiry that transcend the topics being deconstructed. This handbook is a source of ideas from colleagues in a variety of disciplinary and institutional settings, who are tackling the same issues current or future teachers who plan to use case studies from Japan in their lectures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction Critical Pedagogy as Public, Scholarly Engagement

Part 1 Critiquing by Reflection on Acquired Knowledge

1 Reconstructing the Narrative of Because Japan is an Island: Discussions of Immigration, Migration, and Refugee Policy

Chapter 2 On Pedagogy and the Personal: Teaching Media, the Nation, and Globalization about/in Japan

Chapter 3 Teaching Human Agency in Science through Japanese History

Chapter 4 Teaching Gender and the Politics of Reproduction in Japan: Self-Government as a Theoretical Reference Point

Chapter 5 Disentangling Japanese Religion in the Classroom

Part 2 Critiquing by Comparing (with Oneself and with Others)

6 Out of Site, Out of Mind? Ethnographies of Japan, Outside Japan

7 Challenging the Ideas of Japan and Japanese Language in a Foreign Language Classroom: Linguistic Landscapes Project

8 History and Holism: Making Sense of the Anthropology of Japan

9 Deconstructing Japan through the Lens of Border Crossing

10 Applying Intersectionality to Teaching Social Inequalities in Japan

Part 3 Critiquing by Creating

11 Undoing Japan in Global Education: Three Class Projects for Dismantling Culturalist Portrayals of Society

12 Japanese Gardens as a Zone of Contact for Teaching

13 From Japanese in the US to Foreigner in Japan: Unpacking Race in Representations

14 The Materiality of Mokkan: Creating Sources for Reflection on Text in Ancient Japan

Part 4 Critiquing through Curriculum Building

15 The Visual Anthropology of Japan: In and Outside the Classroom

16 A Balancing Act: Teaching the Anthropology of Japan at French Universities

17 Teaching the Japanese Workplace: From Principles to Practice (and Back Again)

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70492-1

1-04-079898-5

90-485-6815-3

9781003704928

OCLC:

1460464036

Publisher Number:

CIPO000299174