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A Lecture on Japanese Prehistory and Mythology with Professor Steve McCarty
Full text linkEntry to a Deep in Japan Podcast, during which Steve McCarty elucidates the origins of Japan, the Imperial line, and how people viewed their environment from 30,000 years ago to the golden age of the Heian Period. He tells moving legends to rival Sophocles, culminating in a fusion of many religions in a mountain range viewed as a maṇḍala that could be traversed
The Woman Diver and the Dragon Ball
No full textA Noh play and temple chronicle, thought to have prehistoric origins in one of the oldest professions, was translated for the Shikoku Bilingual Guidebook by Akiko Takemoto and Steve McCarty. The co-author narrates this podcast, telling the heart-wrenching story of a woman's ultimate sacrifice, with an overlay of Buddhism and archetypal symbolism. After the story, some discussion questions are suggested to have listeners consider the significance of the story and the East Asian cultural value conflicts involved
Encountering famous East-West bridge persons across the U.S. to Japan
No full textThis 23-minute presentation at the University of Hyogo in Kobe goes more deeply into the biography of Steve McCarty than appears in his long chapter in the new book A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives. Formative influences discussed include Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Tibetan yoga, and Zen. Places include Boston, the Taos Pueblo area of New Mexico, San Francisco, Honolulu, Shikoku island, and Osaka. People encountered include Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Durkee (Lama Foundation founder), Edwin O. Reischauer; and in Japan: Donald Keene and the Dalai Lama. Then brief stories about life in Japan include Steve’s international family, playing baseball, English teaching innovations, and research discovering Asian religions syncretized in a mandala of mountains. Steve has thus been an active witness of history as Eastern thought influenced the West, aspiring to be one of those bridge persons
Seminal Articles on e-Learning
Full text linkCompilation of published articles (in Japan unless otherwise indicated): “The Convergence of Specialist and Generalist Knowledge accelerated by Computer Communications” (Kagawa Junior College Journal, 24, 1-6, 1996). "The Internet for Educator Development" (The Language Teacher, 20(9), 17-18, 1996). "Opening the Conference Gates to K-12 and Worldwide Educators" (The Well Connected Educator. Global SchoolNet, U.S., 1997), "Voluntaristic Online Education and the Future with Japan" (Teaching in the Community Colleges Electronic Journal, 3(1) [keynote address paper], U.S., 1998). "Japanese Culture Meets Online Education: Bridging the Psychological Gap" (Educause Review, 34 (3), 42-44, U.S., 1999). "International Issues and New Technologies for Learning" report with Dr. John Afele, World Bank > ADB, Ghana (Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, U.S., 2000). "Review of Open and Distance Education in the Asia Pacific Region" (Open Learning Systems News, 78, 78-80, UK, 2001). "Reaching out to Students - Education Online" (Hiragana Times, pp. 12-15, September 2002). "Information Communication Technologies in Asia: An Interview with Steve McCarty" (CALL Review, Summer 2006, pp. 37-40, UK, 2006). "Window into the Classroom: Podcasting an English for Professional Purposes Course" (Osaka Jogakuin Junior College Journal, 36, 1-21, 2007). "The Future of Web 2.0 in 3D" (The Language Teacher, 32(4), 26-27, 2008). "Motivating Language Learners from Before Admission to After Graduation through Social Media" (Proceedings of CLaSIC 2008: Media in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 426-435), National University of Singapore, 2008)
World Association for Online Education (WAOE) Panel: Building a Free Worldwide Community and Support Structure for Faculty Involved in Online Education
Full text linkPresentations in this file, with roles and affiliations at the time: 1) WAOE President Steve McCarty, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan, "Meeting a Worldwide Need for Community and Faculty Support for Online Education," 2) WAOE Cyber-Parliamentarian Michael Warner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, "Building Communication and Support Avenues through Technologies," 3) WAOE Chair for Mentoring Initiative Nicholas Bowskill, University of Sheffield, UK, "A Worldwide Faculty Mentoring Project for Creating Online Curriculum," and 4) WAOE Chief Technical Officer Maggie McVay Lynch, Portland State University, "The Realities of Technical Implementation and Support for a Worldwide Online Community of Faculty.
How Asian Universities can Rise to the Current Challenge – Interview with World Association for Online Education President Steve McCarty in Japan
Full text linkSurprising answers to questions from an Indian academic viewpoint clarify the field of online education, the current emergency remote teaching, the future of blended learning, who should have online education skills, a weakness of Indian Academia, and how non-Western universities can improve their global standing
The Parable of the Lion and the Fish
No full textMystical short story composed in Boston around 1970 when the author was majoring in physics at Northeastern but absorbed in Hesse, Plato, and Eastern religions. Typeset by hand by the author in 1977 in Honolulu, scanning by mobile phone in 2020 in Osaka gives it a wavy appearance
Christchurch New Zealand cliff hike
No full textFor this 8-minute documentary, the author lugged a video camera and gave a running commentary of a hike from the Scarborough area of Christchurch, New Zealand up a cliff with great scenic beauty. Not long afterward the author saw on TV in Japan that the cliff with all its vegetation and bird nests had crashed into the ocean during a major Christchurch earthquake
Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity
Full text linkThis journalistic essay can give Western readers insight into non-Western logic that the author has found in a long career in Japan. It is also informed by research on intercultural communication, bilingualism and biculturalism. The author teaches those subjects and has a Japanese family. This 2023 update includes the author's photo taken in Osaka of Naomi Osaka, who illustrates the strain of having to choose between national allegiances or parts of one's own multicultural identity
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