Navigating Public Education in Japan for a Bicultural Child with Autism

Author(s):  
Eugene Ryan

When a bilingual child is diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, their parents suddenly find themselves faced with a bewildering range of seemingly urgent choices which emerge from the central idea of What is best for my child? For example, they must decide which place or environment looks like offering the best support, whether or not they should change or give up their jobs, and whether bilingualism itself is even tenable. Even when these key issues have been resolved, there is still the matter of how to raise and educate the child, and how to navigate the various challenges of the educational path that is chosen. In this chapter I will use the experiences of my family to illustrate some examples of the choices families in this situation are required to make. We are a British-Japanese family, settled in Japan, and all of us are fluent in English and Japanese. It will cover the time period from the autism diagnosis of our son at the age of four, to the present, a time span of around six years. During this time, our son has been educated in the local Japanese kindergarten and elementary school.

Author(s):  
Kimberly Hartnett-Edwards ◽  
Eron Reed

This chapter discusses the use of an instructional model called platooning as a strategy to raise student achievement at a diverse, urban public elementary school. Pressure in schools, particularly on teachers, to demonstrate student growth on quantitative measures led teachers at this school to reorganize their instruction into a platooning model. This approach carried unanticipated consequences resulting in social justice issues for the students. The chapter covers the tensions that led to the adoption of the model and the theoretical constructs of social justice that were violated. Although these teachers would not describe what happened from a social justice framework, the level of concern for students, and the teachers’ determination to make empowered decisions on their behalf, demonstrates the fundamental concepts of the social justice agenda in public education.


2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Petersson ◽  
Emil Persson

•This article explores how the image of the USA has developed in two major Russian daily newspapers, Izvestiya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, in a time period comprised of a total 20 weeks’ of study in the years of 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2009. For Russia this time span was dramatic: it moved from seemingly stable superpower in the 1980s, over the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, to the partial comeback to great power status at the beginning of the 21st century. While telling the story of how the image of the USA has evolved, the article also describes how Russian self-images have developed. The image projected of the USA was Manichean in the 1980s, whereas the most benevolent images were found in the 1990s. The examples from 2004 and 2009 reflect an assertive Russia that is back on the world stage. The USA is here again often criticized, but also — as before — comprises the scale against which Russia itself is measured. •


Antiquity ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (244) ◽  
pp. 584-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. M. Peterson

Andrew Fleming's 1987 paper identified coaxial field systems in the British landscapes that could be dated over a long time-period, from Neolithic to Roman. What does that time-span imply and amount to?


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hill ◽  
Rawy Abdelrahman Thabet

Purpose International branch campuses (IBCs) are complex entities and while much has been written about their expansion and development, the literature is largely from an external perspective. There have been few longitudinal studies examining the development of an IBC over time. The purpose of this paper is to review the development of one IBC over an eight-year time period, to identify the key learning points for institutional managers of other IBCs or for institutions intending to establish an IBC. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a culmination of research, conducted during the eight years when the lead author worked at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). The author was involved in practical management aspects as well as the research and analysis of IBC development. This paper represents a form of ethnographic research where the author conducted interviews, meetings and discussion groups, observed institutional policies, strategies and operations in action and was in an ideal position to identify and discuss their impacts on institutional performance. Findings This paper examines key management issues during the early, developing and evolving stages of an IBC and discusses key issues including communication, curriculum, identity and management. Key challenges, procedural issues, managerial responses and strategy will be presented to highlight foundational concerns for IBC development and areas and topics that must be given priority and support. Originality/value This paper considers the management of an IBC from the reflective standpoint of an author employed in a senior management position, during a period of significant growth of UNMC. The author provides insights and discussion involving practical experience.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Alessandra Victor do Nascimento Rosa ◽  
Valdeney Lima da Costa ◽  
Flávia Russo Silva Paiva

O presente artigo analisa as configurações da ampliação da jornada escolar que foram e estão sendo planejadas para as escolas públicas no âmbito do Ensino Fundamental, relacionando a problemática consubstanciada entre essa ampliação e suas distintas finalidades. Para tanto, levantamos as seguintes questões: Como vem se efetivando a ampliação da jornada escolar no contexto da educação pública brasileira? Quais as justificativas mais recorrentes para essa ampliação? Visando ao desenvolvimento deste trabalho realizamos uma pesquisa bibliográfica a partir dos estudos de Parente (2006, 2010), Teixeira (1977), Ribeiro (1986), Arroyo (1986), Cavaliere (2002, 2007, 2009), Arcoverde (2003), Algebaile (2009), Maurício (2009), Monlevade (2009) e Rosa (2016). Os resultados deste estudo evidenciam que a ampliação da jornada escolar no contexto da educação pública brasileira, e voltando-se ao ensino fundamental, tem se realizado, basicamente, a partir da extensão do tempo de permanência dos estudantes na escola e a partir de diferentes entendimentos de como tal tempo escolar estendido deve ser ocupado, bem como sob distintos fundamentos para sua ampliação. Diante disso, observamos que as questões que envolvem a ampliação da jornada escolar, atualmente, se configuram a partir de múltiplas concepções, ideias e práticas emergentes na educação brasileira que precisam ser exploradas, sobretudo de modo aprofundado em trabalhos acadêmicos.Palavras-chave: Políticas educacionais. Escola pública. Jornada escolar ampliada. ABSTRACT This article analyzes the settings of the extension of the school day that were and are being planned for public schools in the elementary school, relating the problem embodied between this expansion and its different purposes. Therefore, we raise the following questions: How has been effective the expansion of the school day in the context of Brazilian public education? What are the most frequent reasons for this expansion? Aiming at the development of this study conducted a literature search from studies of Parente (2006, 2010), Teixeira (1977), Ribeiro (1986), Arroyo (1986), Cavaliere (2002, 2007 and 2009), Arcoverde (2003) Algebaile (2009), Maurício (2009), Monlevade (2009) and Rosa (2016). The results of this study show that the expansion of the school day in the context of Brazilian public education, and returning to the elementary school, has done basically from the extension of students' time spent at school and from different understandings how this extended school time should be occupied and under different foundations for its expansion. Thus, we observe that the issues surrounding the expansion of the school day, currently, are configured from multiple views, ideas and practices emerging in Brazilian education that need to be explored, especially in depth in academic papers.Keywords: Educational policies. Public school. Extended school day. RESUMEN El presente artículo analiza las configuraciones de la ampliación de jornada escolar que han sido y están siendo planeadas para las escuelas públicas en el ámbito de la  Enseñanza Fundamental, relacionando la problemática consustanciada entre esa ampliación y sus diferentes finalidades. Para eso,  planteamos las siguientes cuestiones: Como se efectiva la ampliación de la jornada escolar  en el contexto de la educación pública brasileña? Cuáles son las justificaciones  más frecuentes de esta ampliación? Buscando el desarrollo de este estudio se há llevado a cabo una búsqueda bibliográfica a partir de los estudios  de Parente (2006, 2010), Teixeira (1977), Ribeiro (1986), Arroyo (1986), Cavaliere (2002, 2007 y 2009), Arcoverde (2003), Algebaile (2009), Maurício (2009), Monlevade (2009) y Rosa (2016). Los resultados de este estudio muestran que la ampliación de la jornada escolar en el contexto de la educación pública brasileña, y se  volviendo a laenseñanza  primaria, se há llevado a cabo, básicamente, a partir de la  ampliación del tiempo de permanência de  los estudiantes en la escuela y de diferentes entendimientos de como este tiempo escolar ampliado debe estar ocupado, bien como bajo diferentes bases para su ampliación. Ante esto, hemos observado que las cuestiones relacionadas con la ampliación de la jornada escolar, en la actualidad, se configuran desde múltiplas concepciones, ideas y prácticas emergentes en la educación brasileña que necesitan ser exploradas, sobretodo en profundidad en trabajos académicos.Palabras clave: Políticas educativas. Escuelas públicas. Jornada escolar extendida.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mehdy Davary

This thesis will investigate the recommendation systems in a radically different perspective. First, instead of focusing and proposing related products/services to customers, we will analyze and suggest recommendations for the producers. Such recommendations taking the form of product suggestions or adjustments will be defined according to a given geographical region and time span. We will also generate maps based on product profiles for a given time period and geographical region. Second, the targeted analytic system will be able to generate a description of both the different product facets and the entire product based on the customers’ reviews and thus fulfill a database describing the products available and their quality in a given time period and a geo-graphical region. Moreover, being able to detect and measure the polarity of written opinions, the system can generate a map for a given time period and a geographical region, showing the most successful products/services. We can complete this map by indicating the degree of similarity between successful (or unsuccessful) products. Once this information is obtained, the system can detect product opportunities and proposes a map of alternatives indicating where and when products that were successful in the past and in other similar regions might have a success in another region. Third, based on the social network between customers, we will determine the strength of the relationships between customers and define their degree of leadership. Based on this information, we can weight more precisely the different customers’ reports, assuming that reviews written by leaders will have a stronger impact than those written by followers. Moreover, after being able to identify the leaders, we could determine how they can improve their status or leadership.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Viera-González ◽  
G. Sánchez-Guerrero ◽  
J. Ruiz-Mendoza ◽  
G. Cárdenas-Ortiz ◽  
D. Ceballos-Herrera ◽  
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