Oshie Nishimura-Sahi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6449097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oshie Nishimura-Sahi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oshie |
| FAMILY NAME | Nishimura-Sahi |
| SIGNATURE | NISHIMURA-SAHI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7842-0409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Make Finland and the entire world a better place’
This paper analyses the marketing discourses of the Finnish Government Education Export (FGEE) initiative through a conceptual lens of banal and cosmopolitan nationalism. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, the study examines a range of promotional materials produced by public authorities to promote 'Finnish education' for the international market. The analysis pays particular attention to the orchestration of various visual and textual mod…
Researching Global Education Policy
Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resource
This paper exemplifies a way of recasting researchers’ autobiographical narratives as an intellectual resource. In so doing, it aims to describe the inherent complexity and multilayered nature of the onto-epistemic foundations for studying global education policy (GEP). It seeks to achieve this aim through self-reflective thinking about my own trajectory that encompasses my origin and professional experiences. One’s origin and professional experi…
Policy borrowing of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (Cefr) in Japan
This paper aims to show the complex overlapping and interaction with exogenous influences in the processes of national policymaking by analysing a case of policy borrowing in Japan. Specifically, it explores the political circumstances under which the Council of Europe Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) was introduced to foreign language education policy at the national government level in Japan. The results suggest that …
Assembling educational standards
This study deploys Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to understand how educational standards take shape. To exemplify the inherently collective nature of standards and contingency in the process of standardisation, this study will present a case of the CEFR-J project launched by a group of Japanese university academics to modify the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for English-language teaching and learning in Japan. Drawing o…
Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resource
This paper exemplifies a way of recasting researchers’ autobiographical narratives as an intellectual resource. In so doing, it aims to describe the inherent complexity and multilayered nature of the onto-epistemic foundations for studying global education policy (GEP). It seeks to achieve this aim through self-reflective thinking about my own trajectory that encompasses my origin and professional experiences. One’s origin and professional experi…
Policy borrowing of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (Cefr) in Japan
This paper aims to show the complex overlapping and interaction with exogenous influences in the processes of national policymaking by analysing a case of policy borrowing in Japan. Specifically, it explores the political circumstances under which the Council of Europe Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) was introduced to foreign language education policy at the national government level in Japan. The results suggest that …
Assembling educational standards
This study deploys Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to understand how educational standards take shape. To exemplify the inherently collective nature of standards and contingency in the process of standardisation, this study will present a case of the CEFR-J project launched by a group of Japanese university academics to modify the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for English-language teaching and learning in Japan. Drawing o…
Researching Global Education Policy
Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resource
This paper exemplifies a way of recasting researchers’ autobiographical narratives as an intellectual resource. In so doing, it aims to describe the inherent complexity and multilayered nature of the onto-epistemic foundations for studying global education policy (GEP). It seeks to achieve this aim through self-reflective thinking about my own trajectory that encompasses my origin and professional experiences. One’s origin and professional experi…
‘Make Finland and the entire world a better place’
This paper analyses the marketing discourses of the Finnish Government Education Export (FGEE) initiative through a conceptual lens of banal and cosmopolitan nationalism. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, the study examines a range of promotional materials produced by public authorities to promote 'Finnish education' for the international market. The analysis pays particular attention to the orchestration of various visual and textual mod…
Global Education and Multiculturalism (5 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Christian ministry (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)