Decolonising meritocratic higher education: Key challenges and directions for change

KD Regmi - Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the context of the global decolonial movement, this paper aims to identify major
challenges faced by higher education institutions by following an integrative literature review …

Revisiting symbolic power and elite language education in China: a critical narrative ethnography of the English education major at a top language university in …

Y Liu, BH Nam, Y Yang - Educational Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the promise of English language teaching and the use of English as a medium of
instruction, concerns have been growing about the decline in the number of English majors …

Shadow education, Bourdieu, & meritocracy: towards an understanding of Juku and inequality in Japan

C Samuell - Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Private educational activities designed to enhance student outcomes outside the formal
schooling system are increasingly referred to as shadow education. In Japan, shadow …

Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea

MD Smith, BH Nam, BDF Colpitts - … Studies in the Cultural Politics of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This critical discourse analysis explores cosmopolitan nationalism as neoliberal reform
within East Asian higher education (HE). Placing cosmopolitan nationalism within the …

Shadow education, enabler or barrier: insights from Malaysian secondary school students

JCH Loi, IF Adi Badiozaman, M Thielking… - Educational …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Shadow education (SE) or supplementary private tutoring research has gained significant
traction in the past two decades. With extensive implications of SE on the ecology of …

Shakai**, shadow education, & the entrepreneurial self: fabricating personhood in neoliberal Japan

M D. Smith - Japan Forum, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Under the neoliberal vision for free-market capitalism, discourses validating meritocratic
competition reproduce homo œconomicus, narrowly self-interested human capital seeking …

The Entrepreneur of the Self: Understanding Neoliberalism-as-Enterprise in Japan's Top Global University Project

M Smith - Journal of Comparative & International Higher …, 2024 - ojed.org
Calling on the Foucauldian notion of entrepreneurial Selfhood, this thesis intends to uncover
lived accounts of neoliberalism in Japanese higher education. Indeed, as a member of the …

Comparative Analysis of International Branch Campuses in Korea and Japan: Exploring Success Factors

K Kim, Y Ke - Journal of Comparative & International Higher …, 2024 - ojed.org
This study presents a comparative analysis of the evolution of International Branch
Campuses (IBCs) in South Korea and Japan, utilizing the conceptual framework proposed …

The Case for Intercultural Hermeneutics?: A Brief Introduction to an Interpretative Research Framework

M Smith - Asian Conference for Innovation in Education, 2023 - researchportal.bath.ac.uk
Recognized as the theory and practice of interpretation, hermeneutics presents us with a
methodological-philosophical framework paying particular attention to the linguistic …