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Gamified Learning for Community Revitalization: The Case of Ishinomaki City's Local Revitalization RPG
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Yasumasa Yamaguchi; Yuta Mitsuhashi – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2025
This study examines the impact of a Local Revitalization RPG in Ishinomaki City, Japan, as a tool for enhancing regional attachment, cultural awareness, and educational engagement among university students. Following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, Ishinomaki has sought innovative strategies to foster recovery and preserve…
Descriptors: Gamification, Educational Games, Foreign Countries, Community Development
Reimagining "American Culture": Japanese College Students Read the World of Chicanxs at the Juncture of a Paradigm Shift
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Koshino, Kako – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This case study examines how preservice teachers make meaning of "American culture" while being cognizant of personal bonding between a Japanese ex-inmate and the community he connected with in prison--whom he refers to affectionately as his Chicano homies--in the college course "Culture and Languages of the United States." The…
Descriptors: North Americans, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Culture, Foreign Countries
Foreign Language and Intercultural Development in the Japanese Context -- A Case Study
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Fritz, Robinson; Sandu, Roxana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
Recently, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has produced several internationalisation policies to develop their notion of "guroubaru-jinzai" (global human resources). However, a lack of clear direction regarding theories and approaches about how to achieve these initiatives has created a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
Short-Term International Experience (STIE) and Students' Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision
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Sims, Margaret; Nishida, Yukiyo – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
Exposing pre-service teachers to international professional experiences through a short-term visiting programme serves to challenge their understandings of good quality practice through disturbing assumptions and expectations previously formed through experiences in their own country/culture. Much of the research in international study focuses on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries
Classroom Approaches and Japanese College Students' Intercultural Competence
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Gilbert, Joan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Preparing college students to be contributing members of local and global societies requires educators to analyze the capabilities and needs of their students and to adjust instructional content and practice. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was twofold: (a) to explore how classroom approaches designed to facilitate students' questioning of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Undergraduate Students
Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education
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Shahriar, Ambreen, Ed.; Syed, Ghazal Kazim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
The pursuit of higher education has become increasingly popular among students of many different backgrounds and cultures. As these students embark on higher learning, it is imperative for educators and universities to be culturally sensitive to their differing individualities. "Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education" is an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Awareness