J Tobin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4829 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Tobin |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Tobin |
| FIRMA | TOBIN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4726-7218 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Using Walter Benjamin to rethink children's non-participation in play activities
In this article, the authors reflect on examples they have recorded of children spending time on the thresholds of their classmates’ activities during activity-area times. They use these examples to reconceptualize some commonplace understandings of the places and practices of everyday life in contemporary preschools. They do so by drawing on three related concepts of Walter Benjamin: the arcades (akin to the contemporary shopping mall), the thre…
An argument for method in qualitative research
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care
International comparative ethnographic studies of ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) are difficult to conduct but worth the effort. Comparative studies featuring thick description and polysemic interpretations can challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, expand the menu of the possible, expose the provincialism of national approaches, and illuminate the global circulation of ECEC practices and ideas. Based on reflections on four major comp…
Embodied Routines and Ethnotheories of Morning Drop-Offs at US and Chinese Preschools
This article analyzes scenes from videos of young children being dropped off by their parents or grandparents in Chinese and US preschools. This is an emotionally and cognitively complex event; it asks the child to cross a threshold between the worlds of home and school and the parent or grandparent to turn the care of their child over to teachers. Our analysis suggests that these drop-off routines reflect complicated interactions of ethnotheorie…
Conclusion
The Origins of the Video-Cued Multivocal Ethnographic Method
In 1982 I began using classroom videos as cues for ethnographic interviews. My colleagues and I asked practitioners in three countries to respond to videos shot in their own and each other's preschools. The video cues worked to produce conversations that we used in our 1989 book Preschool in Three Cultures to present perspectives on the same events by cultural insiders and outsiders. This article tells the story of the origins and evolution of th…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 44 No. 3
Experiences and Responses to Microaggressions on Historically White Campuses: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis- Y. Kafi Moragne-Patterson and Tracey M. Barnett Civic Engagement and Institutional Trust among South Africans- Yoosun Chu and Ce Shen How the Immigration and Deportation Systems Work: A Social Worker’s Guide- Carol Cleaveland Immigrant Health Disparities: Does Neighborliness Improve Health?- Kofi Danso Are Older Adults Who Part…
Return Interviews and Long Engagements with Ethnographic Informants
This paper uses examples from research conducted in preschools in Japan, China, and the United States to illustrate the features and virtues of return interviews with informants with whom ethnographers have long research engagements. Return interviews and long research engagements are powerful research strategies that help the ethnographers ask more insightful questions and make more sense of informants’ replies, informants better understand the …
Teaching Embodied
Contesting Visions at aJapanese School for the Deaf
This paper tells the story of the struggle to introduce aJapanese sign language program in a school for the deaf inJapan that until recently had followed the government's approach that emphasizes oral communication. Our method and conceptual framework is ethnographic, as we emphasize the cultural beliefs that underlie the three competing positions on deaf education that are in competition atSapporoSchool for theDeaf
Reframing a Visual Ethnography of a J apanese Preschool Classroom
This article presents a reanalysis of a scene we early filmed and edited in a J apanese preschool classroom. We use a variety of visual and narrative strategies to reframe the video, shifting attention from those we had in earlier editing and analyses decided were peripheral to the action. The article uses this example to address larger questions about who in an ethnographic film are considered to be the key protagonists deemed worthy of represen…
The Japanese Preschool's Pedagogy of Peripheral Participation
This article examines Japanese teachers' beliefs about children's peripheral participation in emotional interactions in the classroom, and especially in fights. The article is based on a reanalysis of scenes of fighting in Japanese preschools from Tobin and colleagues' 2009 book and video, Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited. The reanalysis shifts the focus of attention from the protagonists in the fights, who occupy the center of the video fra…
Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited
Published twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead author Joseph Tobin - along with new collaborators Yeh Hsueh and Mayumi Karasawa - revisits his original research to discover how two decades of globalization and sweeping social transformation have affected the w…
The Japanese Preschool's Pedagogy of Feeling
Among the lessons to be learned in Japanese preschool is how to experience, present, and respond to feelings. We suggest that the feeling most emphasized in Japanese preschools is sabishiisa (loneliness). Japanese preschool educators draw attention to feelings of sabishiisa, or loneliness, to promote a desire in young children for social connection. This social connection is built on a foundation of amae (expressions of dependency needs) and omoi…
The impact of improved self-efficacy on HIV viral load and distress in culturally diverse women living with Aids
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether changes in self-efficacy over time would be related to changes in disease progression markers (CD4, viral load) in a sample of women with AIDS. A self-efficacy measure was developed and two sub-scales emerged via factor analysis of 391 HIV-positive women: AIDS Self-efficacy and Cognitive Behavioral Skills Self-efficacy. Subsequently, the sub-scales and an additional adherence self-efficacy…
The Disappearance of the Body in Early Childhood Education
The Chinese Kindergarten in Its Adolescence
Komatsudani Then and Now
In this article the reflections of the teachers and directors of Komatsudani Hoikuen (‘day-care center’) on a video the authors recently made at their preschool are used to explore processes of continuity and change in Japanese preschool education over the course of a generation. The social changes that are associated with changing preschool practices in Japan include: a falling birth rate, women's changing attitudes about marriage and work, the …
Chinese Early Childhood Educators' Perspectives
Chinese Early Childhood Educators’ Perspectives
To study changing beliefs about early childhood education, educators in Beijing were asked to discuss a 20-minute video of a typical day in a Beijing preschool. This paper focuses on reactions to a segment in the video where a teacher, Ms Chang, speaks harshly to a four-year-old girl who cries throughout breakfast. The preservice educators who commented on the videotapeon the whole were unsurprised by and supportive of Ms Chang’s approach to deal…
There are no Children here
The Irony of Self-Expression
By placing familiar American early childhood educational practices such as sharing time and process writing alongside unfamiliar approaches used in Japan, this article attempts to deconstruct the pedagogy of self-expression. The article argues that the pedagogy of self-expression is (1) conceptually confused and internally inconsistent, (2) insensitive to class and cultural differences within American society, and (3) a symptom of the malady of p…
Japanese Sense of Self
Re-Made in Japan
Dependency and Japanese Socialization
Surprisingly readable and studded with nuggets of insight. The Daily Yomiuri insightful, well-written, fascinating book offers new understandings, not only of Japan, but also of American culture. It is essential for those in anthropology, psychology, sociology, and psychiatry who are interested in culture, as well as those in law and the business community who deal with Japan. Paul Ekman, Ph.D.,Director, Human Interaction Laboratory, Langley Port…
Re-made in Japan
Introduction - domesticating the west the Depaato - merchandising the west while selling Japaneseness For Beautiful Human Life - the use of English in Japan tractors, TV, and telephones - reach out and touch someone in a village the bath - extraordinarily ordinary messages of western style in home magazines reclaiming social and psychological space in a institution for the elderly drinking etiquette in a changing beverage market ordering in a Fre…
The Irony of Self-Expression
By placing familiar American early childhood educational practices such as sharing time and process writing alongside unfamiliar approaches used in Japan, this article attempts to deconstruct the pedagogy of self-expression. The article argues that the pedagogy of self-expression is (1) conceptually confused and internally inconsistent, (2) insensitive to class and cultural differences within American society, and (3) a symptom of the malady of p…
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care
International comparative ethnographic studies of ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) are difficult to conduct but worth the effort. Comparative studies featuring thick description and polysemic interpretations can challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, expand the menu of the possible, expose the provincialism of national approaches, and illuminate the global circulation of ECEC practices and ideas. Based on reflections on four major comp…
The HRAF as Radical Text
The Japanese Preschool's Pedagogy of Feeling
Among the lessons to be learned in Japanese preschool is how to experience, present, and respond to feelings. We suggest that the feeling most emphasized in Japanese preschools is sabishiisa (loneliness). Japanese preschool educators draw attention to feelings of sabishiisa, or loneliness, to promote a desire in young children for social connection. This social connection is built on a foundation of amae (expressions of dependency needs) and omoi…
Return Interviews and Long Engagements with Ethnographic Informants
This paper uses examples from research conducted in preschools in Japan, China, and the United States to illustrate the features and virtues of return interviews with informants with whom ethnographers have long research engagements. Return interviews and long research engagements are powerful research strategies that help the ethnographers ask more insightful questions and make more sense of informants’ replies, informants better understand the …
Remade in Japan
The Origins of the Video-Cued Multivocal Ethnographic Method
In 1982 I began using classroom videos as cues for ethnographic interviews. My colleagues and I asked practitioners in three countries to respond to videos shot in their own and each other's preschools. The video cues worked to produce conversations that we used in our 1989 book Preschool in Three Cultures to present perspectives on the same events by cultural insiders and outsiders. This article tells the story of the origins and evolution of th…
The Japanese Preschool's Pedagogy of Peripheral Participation
This article examines Japanese teachers' beliefs about children's peripheral participation in emotional interactions in the classroom, and especially in fights. The article is based on a reanalysis of scenes of fighting in Japanese preschools from Tobin and colleagues' 2009 book and video, Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited. The reanalysis shifts the focus of attention from the protagonists in the fights, who occupy the center of the video fra…
Komatsudani Then and Now
In this article the reflections of the teachers and directors of Komatsudani Hoikuen (‘day-care center’) on a video the authors recently made at their preschool are used to explore processes of continuity and change in Japanese preschool education over the course of a generation. The social changes that are associated with changing preschool practices in Japan include: a falling birth rate, women's changing attitudes about marriage and work, the …
Contesting Visions at aJapanese School for the Deaf
This paper tells the story of the struggle to introduce aJapanese sign language program in a school for the deaf inJapan that until recently had followed the government's approach that emphasizes oral communication. Our method and conceptual framework is ethnographic, as we emphasize the cultural beliefs that underlie the three competing positions on deaf education that are in competition atSapporoSchool for theDeaf
Reframing a Visual Ethnography of a J apanese Preschool Classroom
This article presents a reanalysis of a scene we early filmed and edited in a J apanese preschool classroom. We use a variety of visual and narrative strategies to reframe the video, shifting attention from those we had in earlier editing and analyses decided were peripheral to the action. The article uses this example to address larger questions about who in an ethnographic film are considered to be the key protagonists deemed worthy of represen…
A Dialogical Approach to the Problem of Field-Site Typicality
THE TYPICALITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS studied by anthropologists is a key methodological issue for those who deal with complex, differentiated urban systems. This article describes a video-stimulated, multivocal solution to the problem of ethnographic field-site typicality. As an example of this approach, the article reveals how the reactions of audiences in six Japanese cities to a video ethnography of a day in a Kyoto preschool worked to produce awar…
Embodied Routines and Ethnotheories of Morning Drop-Offs at US and Chinese Preschools
This article analyzes scenes from videos of young children being dropped off by their parents or grandparents in Chinese and US preschools. This is an emotionally and cognitively complex event; it asks the child to cross a threshold between the worlds of home and school and the parent or grandparent to turn the care of their child over to teachers. Our analysis suggests that these drop-off routines reflect complicated interactions of ethnotheorie…
(Counter) transference and Failure in Intercultural Therapy
National Economic Policy
Journal Article J. Tobin. National Economic Policy Get access National Economic Policy. By J. Tobin. (New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 1966. Pp. x + 211. 37s. 6rf. (cloth), 12s. 6d. (paper).) Nita Watts Nita Watts St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issue 308, 1 December 1967, Pages 883–885, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229583 P…
How to Succeed in Three Cultures
National Economic Policy
Journal Article J. Tobin. National Economic Policy Get access National Economic Policy. By J. Tobin. (New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 1966. Pp. x + 211. 37s. 6rf. (cloth), 12s. 6d. (paper).) Nita Watts Nita Watts St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issue 308, 1 December 1967, Pages 883–885, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229583 P…
Spirits, shamans, and nightmare death
The interaction of war, flight, relocation, and survivor stress are examined in a case study of a Hmong refugee. The need for culturally appropriate treatments for non-Western clients is highlighted, and a possible link is suggested between the circumstances of the case study and sudden death syndrome
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
(Counter) transference and Failure in Intercultural Therapy
Visual anthropology and multivocal ethnography
Preschool in Three Cultures
How to Succeed in Three Cultures
The HRAF as Radical Text
A longitudinal study of osteoarthritis of the hand
Osteoarthritis is the most ubiquitous rheumatic disease worldwide. Although its prevalence in various populations has been well documented, few studies have evaluated the longitudinal radiographic progression of the disease, especially as it is expressed in the interphalangeal joints of the hand. In this longitudinal study, left hand-wrist X-rays of 386 white male participants of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging followed for at least 5 y…
Preschool in Three Cultures
A comparison of Japanese, Chinese and American preschools, discussing how these schools both reflect and affect philosophies of child-rearing and early childhood education and larger social patterns and beliefs in each society
A Dialogical Approach to the Problem of Field-Site Typicality
THE TYPICALITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS studied by anthropologists is a key methodological issue for those who deal with complex, differentiated urban systems. This article describes a video-stimulated, multivocal solution to the problem of ethnographic field-site typicality. As an example of this approach, the article reveals how the reactions of audiences in six Japanese cities to a video ethnography of a day in a Kyoto preschool worked to produce awar…
Re-made in Japan
Introduction - domesticating the west the Depaato - merchandising the west while selling Japaneseness For Beautiful Human Life - the use of English in Japan tractors, TV, and telephones - reach out and touch someone in a village the bath - extraordinarily ordinary messages of western style in home magazines reclaiming social and psychological space in a institution for the elderly drinking etiquette in a changing beverage market ordering in a Fre…
The Real World of Japanese Education
Remade in Japan
Japanese Sense of Self
Re-Made in Japan
Dependency and Japanese Socialization
Surprisingly readable and studded with nuggets of insight. The Daily Yomiuri insightful, well-written, fascinating book offers new understandings, not only of Japan, but also of American culture. It is essential for those in anthropology, psychology, sociology, and psychiatry who are interested in culture, as well as those in law and the business community who deal with Japan. Paul Ekman, Ph.D.,Director, Human Interaction Laboratory, Langley Port…
The Irony of Self-Expression
By placing familiar American early childhood educational practices such as sharing time and process writing alongside unfamiliar approaches used in Japan, this article attempts to deconstruct the pedagogy of self-expression. The article argues that the pedagogy of self-expression is (1) conceptually confused and internally inconsistent, (2) insensitive to class and cultural differences within American society, and (3) a symptom of the malady of p…
There are no Children here
Chinese Early Childhood Educators' Perspectives
Chinese Early Childhood Educators’ Perspectives
To study changing beliefs about early childhood education, educators in Beijing were asked to discuss a 20-minute video of a typical day in a Beijing preschool. This paper focuses on reactions to a segment in the video where a teacher, Ms Chang, speaks harshly to a four-year-old girl who cries throughout breakfast. The preservice educators who commented on the videotapeon the whole were unsurprised by and supportive of Ms Chang’s approach to deal…
The Disappearance of the Body in Early Childhood Education
The Chinese Kindergarten in Its Adolescence
Komatsudani Then and Now
In this article the reflections of the teachers and directors of Komatsudani Hoikuen (‘day-care center’) on a video the authors recently made at their preschool are used to explore processes of continuity and change in Japanese preschool education over the course of a generation. The social changes that are associated with changing preschool practices in Japan include: a falling birth rate, women's changing attitudes about marriage and work, the …
The impact of improved self-efficacy on HIV viral load and distress in culturally diverse women living with Aids
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether changes in self-efficacy over time would be related to changes in disease progression markers (CD4, viral load) in a sample of women with AIDS. A self-efficacy measure was developed and two sub-scales emerged via factor analysis of 391 HIV-positive women: AIDS Self-efficacy and Cognitive Behavioral Skills Self-efficacy. Subsequently, the sub-scales and an additional adherence self-efficacy…
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