The Experiences of a Female Doctoral Student Abroad : Feeling the Gap

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  • 長期留学中の大学院女子留学生の語り : 断絶の感覚をうみだすもの
  • チョウキ リュウガク チュウ ノ ダイガクイン ジョシ リュウガクセイ ノ カタリ ダンゼツ ノ カンカク オ ウミダス モノ

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Chang, a foreign student in a long-term (nine-year) doctoral program in Japan, acknowledges her “felt sense” as guided by Suzuki using the TAE (Thinking at the Edge) procedure. It finds that for Chang a clear gap exists between her ideal self as an active member of society in her birthplace, Taiwan, and that of her (constrained, under-appreciated) real self in Japan. A second gap exists owing to a perceived unbalance between Chang’s efforts and how they are evaluated. This qualitative analysis clarifies Chang’s seemingly rootless identity and points to the possibility of establishing graduate education as a program for Sustainability Education which focuses on how to build a coherent identity so that graduate international students are able to think about the worldwide movement and a way of life at the same time.

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