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Keita Takayama

Lecturer, 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 received his BA (Foreign Studies) and English teaching certificate from Sophia University in Tokyo Japan. Since then he taught in different national contexts, Vancouver (Canada), Bangalore (India), Tokyo (Japan), and Madison (USA) both in secondary and postsecondary institutions, teaching middle school and college students, adults, and pre-service teachers. In December 2007 he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled Right turn in Japan’s third great education reform: A critical, globalization approach to the studies of Japanese education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and joined the Social Contexts Teaching and Research Group at the University of New England in February 2008.

Research interests

Comparative education and postcolonial theories
Globalizations and educational changes
Critical social theory in education
Education and social movements
Aboriginal education
Japanese education

Refereed Journal and Book Chapter Publications

Takayama, K. (2010, in press). Politics of externalization in reflexive times: Reinventing Japanese education reform discourses through "Finnish success." Comparative Education Review.

Takayama, K. (2009). 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): 577-589.

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 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.