Yoshiko Nozaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoshiko Nozaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoshiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Nozaki |
| SIGNATURE | NOZAKI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and International Conflicts
Japan's neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century. Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese domestic as well as regional and global political contexts to gain insight into the persistent contention over colonialism and the Pacific War in historical memory and…
The "Comfort Women" Controversy: History and Testimony
A] conference of historians, psychoanalysts, and artists, gathered to reflect on the relation of education to the Holocaust, watched the videotaped testimony of the woman in an attempt to better understand the era. A lively debate ensued. The testimony was not accurate, historians claimed. The number of chimneys was misrepresented. Historically, only one chimney was blown up, not all four. Since the memory of the testifying woman turned out to be…
What U.S. Middle School Students Bring to Global Education: Discourses on Japan, Formation of American Identities, and the Sociology of Knowledge and Curriculum
What kinds of discourses on a foreign country do young people in the United States bring to global studies classrooms? What does it mean for them to engage in a series of discourses in terms of their identity formations, when these discourses represent a particular kind of worldview? How should teachers deal with the tendency of the students to see foreign nations as the other? How can educational researchers study such discourses and the operati…
Critical Teaching about Asia: Orientalism, Postcolonial Perspectives and Cross-cultural Education
This paper explores the ways to develop a curriculum and pedagogy to teach Asian cultures and histories to US students – and by implication to students in the West – from critical postcolonial perspectives. In particular, by examining studies of Japan as an example, it identifies and discusses several key issues, including application of the concept of Orientalism, (commonsensical) binary oppositions that lurk in cross-cultural studies and unders…
Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and Inter-national Conflicts
Japan's neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century. Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese domestic as well as regional and global political contexts to gain insight into the persistent contention over colonialism and the Pacific War in historical memory and…
War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese history textbook controversy and Ienaga Saburo's court challenges
The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a nation. The degree to which Japan is willing to confront its past is not just about history, but als…
Japanese politics and the history textbook controversy, 1982–2001
Feminist Theory and the Media Representation of a Woman-of-Color Superintendent: Is the World Ready for Cyborgs
In this piece, the author discusses recent feminist theory, in particular feminist theory of cyborg identity, and examines some media representations of a woman-of-color superintendent. It is suggested that the cyborg image offers alternative ways to consider the issue of diversity and educational leadership, including the superintendency
Essentializing Dilemma and Multiculturalist Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Children in a U.S. School
This article examines some Japanese children's experiences at a U.S. elementary school, as well as their teachers' pedagogical responses. Two discourses of difference—“individual difference” and “social/cultural difference”—were used in the school in somewhat dichotomous ways, and the combination worked against those children who had difficulty adjusting. A third pedagogic discourse of difference needs to be constructed to aid teachersfacing esse…
Japanese education, nationalism, and Ienaga Saburo's court challenges
Ienaga Saburo's thirty-two-year court challenge of the Japanese government's textbook censorship came to an end in August 1997. The Supreme Court handed down its decision on his third lawsuit, finding that on several accounts Ienaga had been wronged by the government's textbook screening process. While the decision was something less than a total victory for Ienaga, an opinion delivered by the chief justice clearly indicated that school textbooks…
Essentializing Dilemma and Multiculturalist Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Children in a U.S. School
This article examines some Japanese children's experiences at a U.S. elementary school, as well as their teachers' pedagogical responses. Two discourses of difference—“individual difference” and “social/cultural difference”—were used in the school in somewhat dichotomous ways, and the combination worked against those children who had difficulty adjusting. A third pedagogic discourse of difference needs to be constructed to aid teachersfacing esse…
Feminist Theory and the Media Representation of a Woman-of-Color Superintendent: Is the World Ready for Cyborgs
In this piece, the author discusses recent feminist theory, in particular feminist theory of cyborg identity, and examines some media representations of a woman-of-color superintendent. It is suggested that the cyborg image offers alternative ways to consider the issue of diversity and educational leadership, including the superintendency
Japanese education, nationalism, and Ienaga Saburo's court challenges
Ienaga Saburo's thirty-two-year court challenge of the Japanese government's textbook censorship came to an end in August 1997. The Supreme Court handed down its decision on his third lawsuit, finding that on several accounts Ienaga had been wronged by the government's textbook screening process. While the decision was something less than a total victory for Ienaga, an opinion delivered by the chief justice clearly indicated that school textbooks…
Feminist Theory and the Media Representation of a Woman-of-Color Superintendent: Is the World Ready for Cyborgs
In this piece, the author discusses recent feminist theory, in particular feminist theory of cyborg identity, and examines some media representations of a woman-of-color superintendent. It is suggested that the cyborg image offers alternative ways to consider the issue of diversity and educational leadership, including the superintendency
Essentializing Dilemma and Multiculturalist Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Children in a U.S. School
This article examines some Japanese children's experiences at a U.S. elementary school, as well as their teachers' pedagogical responses. Two discourses of difference—“individual difference” and “social/cultural difference”—were used in the school in somewhat dichotomous ways, and the combination worked against those children who had difficulty adjusting. A third pedagogic discourse of difference needs to be constructed to aid teachersfacing esse…
Japanese politics and the history textbook controversy, 1982–2001
War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese history textbook controversy and Ienaga Saburo's court challenges
The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a nation. The degree to which Japan is willing to confront its past is not just about history, but als…
Critical Teaching about Asia: Orientalism, Postcolonial Perspectives and Cross-cultural Education
This paper explores the ways to develop a curriculum and pedagogy to teach Asian cultures and histories to US students – and by implication to students in the West – from critical postcolonial perspectives. In particular, by examining studies of Japan as an example, it identifies and discusses several key issues, including application of the concept of Orientalism, (commonsensical) binary oppositions that lurk in cross-cultural studies and unders…
Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and Inter-national Conflicts
Japan's neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century. Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese domestic as well as regional and global political contexts to gain insight into the persistent contention over colonialism and the Pacific War in historical memory and…
What U.S. Middle School Students Bring to Global Education: Discourses on Japan, Formation of American Identities, and the Sociology of Knowledge and Curriculum
What kinds of discourses on a foreign country do young people in the United States bring to global studies classrooms? What does it mean for them to engage in a series of discourses in terms of their identity formations, when these discourses represent a particular kind of worldview? How should teachers deal with the tendency of the students to see foreign nations as the other? How can educational researchers study such discourses and the operati…
Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and International Conflicts
Japan's neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century. Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese domestic as well as regional and global political contexts to gain insight into the persistent contention over colonialism and the Pacific War in historical memory and…
The "Comfort Women" Controversy: History and Testimony
A] conference of historians, psychoanalysts, and artists, gathered to reflect on the relation of education to the Holocaust, watched the videotaped testimony of the woman in an attempt to better understand the era. A lively debate ensued. The testimony was not accurate, historians claimed. The number of chimneys was misrepresented. Historically, only one chimney was blown up, not all four. Since the memory of the testifying woman turned out to be…
Sociology (8 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Nationalism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)