A Summative Evaluation of Internationalization of Japanese Faculty Members Through Their International Cooperation Project Participation

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  • 国際協力事業参加を通した日本の大学教員の国際化に関する評価研究

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A disconnect between internationalization and faculty members’ scholarship, and a lack of analysis of diverse internationalization policies at the national level are the two main issues when studying internationalization of higher education in Japan today. The study focused on remedying the existing issues by looking at the internationalization of Japanese faculty members through their participation in international cooperation projects funded by the Japanese government’s Overseas Development Assistance (ODA). Formulated as a qualitative summative evaluation project, the study used Qualitative Content Analysis as the main analytical framework, and used an interview as the main data collection method. In addition, the study gathered available public documents such as the final project report as supplemental data in order to triangulate its analysis. The author attempted to utilize available qualitative strategies to maintain methodological validity. The analysis showed the integration of the international dimension by Japanese faculty members, but their integration of the intercultural dimension was less obvious. The study concludedthat the internationalization of Japanese faculty members’ scholarship through international cooperation projects became evident only in the international dimension integration, and that identifying the challenges of the integration of the intercultural dimension into their scholarship requires further research.

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  • 教育研究

    教育研究 (59), 31-47, 2017-03-31

    国際基督教大学

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