以下のとおり公開研究会を開催いたしますので、ご案内いたします。

■日時
2019年8月8日（水）13:30～15:30

■場所 
RIHE授業研究開発室112

■使用言語
英語

■テーマ
国際化の類型化の試みー日本の大学における若手外国人教員－

■講師
トーマス・ブラザーフッド氏（ オックスフォード大学）

■概要
In this seminar I offer new qualitative insights into internationalization processes in Japanese higher education. Drawing on ideas from migration studies and informed by interviews with junior international faculty members (JIFs) in Japanese universities, I posit a novel, actor-centered typology of internationalization that delineates between the integration, assimilation, and marginalization of mobile actors. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with JIFs from a variety of disciplines and institutions across Japan. Findings indicated a pattern of disillusionment with their role in internationalization, as many perceived themselves to be tokenized symbols of internationalization rather than valued actors within it. Participants identified various barriers which prevented them from participating in the academic “mainstream” and confined them to peripheral roles. I argue that their experiences are indicative of assimilative and marginalizing forms of internationalization. A relative lack of integrative forms may represent a barrier to reform in Japanese universities despite decades of state-sponsored internationalization.

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