Exposing and dialogizing racism through counter-storytelling and critical pedagogy in a Japanese EAP situation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928989 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn Toh (0000-0001-7106-6283, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-180 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1757743815586519 |
| OpenAlex | W2571582303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article is about exposing and countering racism through critical pedagogy in the context of a Japanese EAP (English for academic purposes) program. Relevant issues are first raised through: (a) a review of academic work concerning Japanese constructions of language, race and culture commonly found in nihonjinron writings, a genre of literature concerned with depictions of Japanese uniqueness or Japaneseness; and (b) an examination of important historical developments in post-war Japan beginning with its occupation by the Allied forces after the nation’s unconditional surrender, which is conducted with a view to demonstrating how the empowerment of a conservative politics has contributed to discourses that reify Japan as a “monolingual” and “monocultural” nation. Following this, the article focuses on how critical counter-storytelling can be combined with a critical pedagogy aimed at exposing and dialogizing prevailing discourses and practices relating to nihonjinron. The article concludes with a reiteration of the importance of denaturalizing and destabilizing racialized and racist practices extant in socio-educational spaces and a prognosis of what the future may hold with regards to ongoing contestations surrounding Japanese constructions of race and culture
Context (archaeology · Critical discourse analysis · Critical pedagogy · Critical race theory · Critical theory · Ideology · Linguistics · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Storytelling · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Law
Native-Speakerism in Japan
TheIdea of English in Japan
Questioning linguistic instrumentalism
Student Writing as 'Academic Literacies'
Haiboku o dakishimete
An Introduction to Japanese Society
Teacher Identity as Pedagogy
Democracy in Occupied Japan
Multiethnic Japan
Globalization and Language Learning in Rural Japan
Handbook of Asian education
Cartels of the Mind
And we are still not saved
Pedagogy of the oppressed
Critical Race Methodology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |