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Report on the Euro-Japan Academic Networking for Humanities Project (2013 Forums)
Get PDFThis paper reports on the Third, Fourth and Fifth Forums of the Euro-Japan Academic Networking for Humanities Project held during 2013. Round table discussions and presentations of research to date by representative groups of each university focused on issues of culture and identity, peace and human security, diversity and fragmentation. The academic and institutional frameworks of each university were examined in detail with a view to exploring avenues for trans-university research co-operation. Finally a common research body with a defined scope of research was agreed upon. ?? ???2013??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan: The Aim and Challenge at the University of Tsukuba
Get PDFThe influence of internationalization on higher education is rapidly growing throughout the world. In Europe, the interrelation between universities, including the exchange of students and faculty members, has been stimulated through the Erasmus and the Erasmus Mundus Programs and the Bologna process. As for the United States, many of their universities are placed high in world university rankings, attracting many intelligent international students, and both the universities and the federal government constantly pursue strategic methods for strengthening their presence in the international community. In Japan, the accumulated total number of international students reached 110,000 students in 2003, and now the government is aiming to increase this number to 300,000 by 2020. As is evident from the figures disclosed by the government and by the university rankings, statistically speaking, Japan has a low ratio of international students and faculty members in comparison to other countries whose universities rank high on the chart. Focusing on increasing the number of international students is one immediate strategy for concerted action toward internationalization. However, it is important to note that a high ratio of international students and faculty members does not necessarily lead to true internationalization; rather it is the quality of the programs and output that need to be focused upon. This paper explores the current situation of internationalization and its effect through a comparison of Japanese universities with universities of other countries. By examining examples of actual programs currently offered at the University of Tsukuba for meeting the needs and education of students for the globalized world, this paper will also discuss how Japanese universities will be able to grow and strengthen their status in comparison to their competitors. ?? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????2003????????????11????????????2020????30??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Comments and Discussions
No full textThis section is an open forum for discussion between readers and authors. If you would like to submit comments on specific articles and/or open a discussion thread on any of the related themes please send them directly to the editorial board by email, to [email protected]. Your comments will be posted in this section as soon as they can be reviewed by the Editorial Board. ?? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????interfaculty@hass.tsukuba.ac.jp?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Get PDFNowadays the crowd no longer takes to the streets and overruns the squares and public places, or at least only occasionally. My intent in this paper is not to study the concept of ‘crowd’ as such, even supposing this were possible, nor is it to undertake a lexical analysis of the term ‘crowd’. I shall adopt a different point of view, partial, as any point of view is bound to be. At a specific historical period, the turning point of the nineteenth century, and in a restricted area of the world, Italy and France, the crowd, or what is meant by the term ‘crowd’, was a source of terror and fascination. Today, this very same term has none of its past resonance and strength, nor does it conjure up the same powerful images as it did then. However, it is precisely these images, which will always go beyond the strict meaning of the term to which they refer whilst being inextricably bound to it, that I shall discuss. From an examination of two emblematic Italian paintings of the period, my analysis will focus on the famous Psychology of Crowds by Gustave Le Bon published in 1895. What of his sharp and troubling analysis of crowd behavior is still pertinent to the world we live in today? ?? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Learning the Art of Negotiation: Reflections on the Global Negotiation Program at the University of Tsukuba
Get PDFThis short note gives an overview and evaluation of the interdisciplinary Postgraduate Certificate Program in Global Negotiation at the University of Tsukuba. The curriculum offers a wide variety and choice of courses that are relevant and appeal to a broad spectrum of students from all disciplines in the University. ?? ????????????????????????????????????(GNP)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Language Policy and Linguistic Reality in Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States
Get PDFTurbulent social and political circumstances in the Middle South Slavic language area caused the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the formation of new countries in the 1990s, and this of course was reflected in the demise of the prestigious Serbo-Croatian language and the emergence of new standard languages based on the Štokavian dialect (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin). The Yugoslav language policy advocated a polycentric model of linguistic unity that strived for equal representation of the languages of the peoples (Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Slovenian), ethnicities (ethnic minorities) and ethnic groups, as well as both scripts (Latin and Cyrillic). Serbo-Croatian, spoken by 73% of people in Yugoslavia, was divided into the eastern and the western variety and two standard language expressions: Bosnian and Montenegrin. One linguistic system had sociolinguistic subsystems or varieties which functioned and developed in different socio-political, historical, religious and other circumstances. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the aforementioned sociolinguistic subsystems became standard languages (one linguistic system brought forth four political languages). We will describe the linguistic circumstances of the newly formed countries after 1991 in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. We will show that language policies of the newly formed states of former Yugoslavia have encountered many problems, including some elementary issues of standardisation. Finally we conclude that the future will not bring convergence and that language policies will continue to depend on the general political situation in the region. ?? ?????????????????????????????????????1990?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????73???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1991??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Preface
Get PDFUnder the common theme of Fragmentations, the fifth issue of Inter Faculty presents research papers and studies carried out within the framework of the various programs and projects of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Tsukuba and its partner universities
Get PDFThis paper will discuss the following lexemes in the French language - individu, personne, foule and gens - through an analysis of a determined number of occurrences. Empirical observation leads to the identification of properties which either emphasize common features or, on the contrary, oppose them. The study will attempt to show that by taking into consideration the two parameters of quantitative delimitation/qualitative delimitation with enunciative parameters such as enunciator/co-enunciator in an intersubjective relationship, in the subgroup of hyperlexemes referring to animated human beings, individu is related to foule whereas personne is related to gens. ?? ??????????? individu?????personne?????foule?????gens?????????????????????????????????QNT????QLT?????????????????/???????????????????????????????????????????????individu?????foule?????personne?????gens???????????????????????????
Body Culture and Conflict of Identities: Variations for Dialogue
Get PDFThe confrontations between contemporary societies have found their modern expression in the euphemized and regulated cultural object that is sport. In the ideological apparatus of the state, sport is given stakes and tournaments that the media overexposes, globalizes, and disseminates. Meanwhile, if sport practices represent a global social fact in which all institutions are expressed at one time and totally, we could wonder what would be the contribution of people, individuals and persons at the different scales of variation within society. In other words, under which conditions and by what means could body culture appropriation turn conflict between cultural, individual and inner identities into diaogue so as to facilitate mutual comprehension and shared contemporary humanistic values? We will illustrate this discourse with examples of traditional practices taken from karate and swimming as reference. ?? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????