Keita Takayama
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
BA (Sophia Univ. Tokyo Japan),
Middle school teaching certificate (English language. Sophia Univ.),
MA (British Columbia, Canada),
PhD (Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Contact
| Email: | ktakayam@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS (E7) 306 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3472 (or +61 2 6773 3472 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2445 |
Keita grew up in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. After finishing his BA, he taught in different national contexts, Vancouver (Canada), Bangalore (India), Tokyo (Japan), and Madison (USA), teaching middle school and college students, adults, and pre-service teachers. He was aworded the Fulbright Fellowship (2002-2006) to undertake his doctoral study at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). After completing his study, he joined the Social Contexts Teaching and Research Group at the University of New England in February 2008.
Affiliations
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
Areas of Teaching
EDUC403 Teaching for Cultural Diversity: NESB Students
Research interests
Globalizations and educational changes
Sociology of education
Comparative Education
Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Writings
Takayama, K. (2013) OECD, ‘Key competencies’ and the new challenges of educational inequality. Journal of Curriculum Studies 45 (1): 67-80.
Takayama K (2013) Untangling the global-distant-local knot: the politics of national academic achievement testing in Japan. Journal of Education Policy. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2012.758833
Takayama K (2012) Exploring the interweaving of contrary currents: transnational policy enactment and path-dependent policy implementation in Australia and Japan. Comparative Education 48 (4): 505–523.
Takayama, K. (2012). Bringing a political 'bite' to educational transfer studies: Cultural politics of PISA and the OECD in Japanese education reform. In G. Steiner-Khamsi and F. Waldow (eds) World Yearbook of Education 2012: Policy borrowing and lending in education (pp. 148-166). New York: Routledge.
Takayama, K. and Kang, H. (2012). Tokdo/Takeshima Island Dispute: A Call for Educators to Act towards Mutual Understanding. Asia Pacific Memo # 184. Institute of Asia Research, University of British Columbia.
Takayama, K. (2012). National Testing in Japan and Australia: To Publish or Not to Publish Scores? Asia Pacific Memo #149. Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia.
Takayama, K. (2012). How Finnish, no East Asian education became a global reference. Asia Pacific Memo #132. Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia.
Takayama, K. (2012). オーストラリアの大学におけるeポートフォリオの活用3 (The uses of e-portfolio in Australian universities No. 3). 文部科学教育通信 285: 16-17.
Takayama, K. (2012). オーストラリアの大学におけるeポートフォリオの活用2 (The uses of e-portfolio in Australian universities No. 2). 文部科学教育通信 284: 16-17.
Takayama, K. (2012). オーストラリアの大学におけるeポートフォリオの活用1 (The uses of e-portfolio in Australian universities No. 1). 文部科学教育通信 283: 22-23.
Takayama, K. (2011). 格差社会における教員養成・教科教育学への一考察：オーストラリア・ニューサウスウエールズ州の事例から (Reimagining teacher education and curriculum research in time of rising social inequalities: Lessons from Australian (New South Wales) teacher education). 日本教科教育学会誌（The Bulletin of Japanese Curriculum Research and Development) 34(3): 47-54.
Takayama, K. (2011). A comparativist's predicaments of writing about 'other' education: a self-reflective, critical review of studies of Japanese education. Comparative Education 47(4): 449-470.
Takayama, K. (2011). Review Essay: Other Japanese educations and Japanese education otherwise. Asia Pacific Journal of Education31(3): 345-359.
Takayama, K. (2011). Reconceptualizing the politics of Japanese education, Reimagining comparative studies of Japanese education. In D. Blake and J. Rappleye (eds) Reimaginiing Japanese education: Borders, transfers, circulations, and the comparative (pp. 247-280). Oxford: Symposium Books.
Takayama, K. (2011). OECD's PISA, media sansationalism, and education reform in Japan. Asia Pacific Memo #47. Institute of Asian Research, University of British Coumbia.
Takayama, K. (2010). ナショナリズムと公教育―戦後的論争からの決別のすすめ(Toward a New Debate on Nationalism in Public Education). 公教育計画学会創刊号(Special Edition, The Society for Public Education Planning).
Takayama, K. (2010). Book review: The history of modern Japanese education: Constructing the national school system, 1872-1890 (Benjamin Duke, 2009). Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 30(2): 243-7. Takayama, K. (2010). From the Rightist "coup" to the new beginning of progressive politics in Japanese education. In M. W. Apple (ed) Global crises, social justice ,and education. New York: Routledge.
Takayama, K. (2009). Globalizing critical studies of 'official' knowledge: lessons from the Japanese history textbook controversy over 'comfort women.' British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30(5): 577-89.
Takayama, K. (2009). Progressive struggle and critical education scholarship in Japan: Toward democratization of critical education studies. In M. W. Apple, W. Au, and L. Gandin (eds) International handbook for critical education (pp. 354-367). New York: Routledge.
Takayama, K. (2009). Is Japanese education the 'exception'?: Examining the situated articulation of neoliberalism through the analysis of policy keywords. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 29(2): 125-142.
Apple, W. M, Whitty, G., Nagao, A, & Takayama, K. eds. (2009). 批判的教育学と公教育の再生 (Critical studies of education and the struggle for public schools: Contesting neoliberal education reform and beyond). Tokyo: Akashi shoten.
Takayama, K. (2009). オリエンタリズムの影を越えて: グローバル化時代における比較教育学への批判的アプローチ (Beyond the legacy of Orientalism: A critical approach to comparative education in the era of globalizations). In M. W. Apple, G. Whitty, and A. Nagao (eds) 批判的教育学と公教育の再生 (Critical studies of education and the struggle for public schools: Contesting neoliberal education reform and beyond) (pp. 117-146). Tokyo: Akashi shoten.
Takayama, K. & Yamashita, K. (2008). ウイスコンシン州ー少人数学級政策 (SAGE: Student Achievement Guarantee in Education) の展開過程と評価を中心にー(Review on the history and effect of SAGE program in Wisconsin, USA). In M. Ogawa, M (Ed) 平成１８年度文部科学省調査研究委託事業報告書 教職員配置に関する調査研究委託事業 「少人数教育に関する調査研究事業」報告書 (Report commissioned by the Ministry of Education) (pp. 440-462). Tokyo: University of Tokyo.
Takayama, K. (2008). The politics of international league tables: PISA in Japan's achievement crisis debate. Comparative Education 44(4): 387-407.
Takayama, K. (2008). Japan's Ministry of Education "becoming the right": neoliberal restructuring and the Ministry's struggles for political legitimacy. Globalisation, Societies, and Education 6(2): 131-46.
Takayama, K. & Apple, M. W. (2008). The cultural politics of borrowing: Japan, Britain, and the narrative of educational crisis. British Journal of Sociology of Education 29 (3): 289-301.
Takayama, K. (2008). Beyond Orientalism in comparative education: Challenging the binary opposition between Japanese and American education. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 28(1): 19-34.
Takayama, K. (2007). A nation at risk crosses the Pacific: Transnational borrowing of the U.S. crisis discourse in the debate on education reform in Japan. Comparative Education Review 51(4): 423-46.
Awards
2010 George Bereday Award (Comparative & International Education Society)
2002-2006 Fullbright Fellowship (Japan-US Educational Commission)
Invitational keynote lectures
SSTAR (Staff & Students Talking about Resarch) Autumn Conference (Speech Title: Globalizing educational research: Beyond metropolitan provincialism), School of Education, University of Newcastle, Australia, April 2012.
Annual Conference of Korean Societies of Curriculum Studies (Symposium: East Asian educational Characteristics and efforts on change), Graduate School of Education, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, November 2011.
Special Symposium of Japan Curriculum Research and Development Association (Symposium: Overseas curriculum research and teacher education 1 海外における教科教育学研究と教員養成１), School of Education, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, August 2011.