Connecting Indigenous Ainu, University and Local Industry in Japan: The Urespa Project

Autor/inn/en	Maeda, Koji; Okano, Kaori H.
Titel	Connecting Indigenous Ainu, University and Local Industry in Japan: The Urespa Project
Quelle	In: International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 12 (2013) 1, S.45-60 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1475
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Benchmarking; Indigenous Populations; Private Sector; Cooperation; School Business Relationship; School Community Relationship; Case Studies; Higher Education; Scholarships; Asian Culture; Asians; Local Issues; Educational Attitudes; Civil Rights; Disadvantaged; History; Acculturation; Public Policy; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sinti und Roma; Privater Sektor; Co-operation; Kooperation; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Scholarship; Stipendium; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Akkulturation; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	This paper examines how collaboration amongst university, indigenous community and private sector companies can promote Ainu participation in higher education, drawing on a case study of the Urespa Project in Sapporo University, Japan. In this project, the university offers scholarships to Ainu students, requiring them to take a special course in Ainu culture and history and develop collaborations with partner private sector companies. We suggest that "the two-way learning" that the Urespa Project advocates signifies a challenge to the conventional approach to Ainu education, which has long centred on the majority wajin providing uni-directional assistance to the Ainu in order to help them achieve the national educational benchmarks. The "mutual learning" approach (sodateai in Japanese, urespa in the Ainu language) stresses a nurturing environment in which both Ainu and non-Ainu students feel included. That such initiatives came from private universities, rather than the national government, is indicative of how Ainu education is perceived as a local, rather than national, issue in Japan. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10