A Thrice-Told Tale of Japanese Staffrooms and a Transformative Journey in Searching for East Asia as Method  

作　　者：Yanping Fang Linfeng Wang 方燕萍;王林锋

机构地区：[1]Nanyang Technological University [2]Osaka Kyoiku University

出　　处：《ECNU Review of Education》2024年第3期618-640,共23页华东师大教育评论（英文）

摘　　要：Purpose:This study aims to search for fitting lenses to view and interpret teacher learning in a Japanese secondary school teacher staffroom and capture the reconstituting of researcher subjectivities in this process.Design/Approach/Methods:A narrative approach chronically documents the findings and use of the lenses in analyzing the staffroom daily interactions and traces the journey of transformation inour researcher subjectivities.Findings:The telling of a Japanese staffroom(shokuinshitsu)as a thrice-told tale under the three lenses—cultural-historic activity theory,contextualism,and intimacy orientationeach uncovers a unique interpretation of the learning going on in the daily life of the Japanese staffroom.While complementary,Western-lenses are found to be unable to explain the nature of the everyday practices in the staffroom formed under the worldviews and ethics of East Asia.Our critical examination of the major academic encounters involved in the past two decades illuminates the complex dynamism behind our research perspectives,awakens us to the dominance of Western-centralism in our researcher subjectivities,transforms our worldviews,and returns us to our cultural roots to build alternative frames of reference as East Asia as Method.OriginalityValue:This study not only uniquely demonstrates what decentered,alternative,and diversified frames of reference would look like in studying East Asian practices but also what it would take for scholars to move toward East Asia as Method.Additionally,going beyond the three lenses,it contributes to our understanding of how space(staffroom as an entity)mediates forming of the character of those who are dwellers of the shokuinshitsu.

关 键 词：East Asia as method space as a mediating entity teacher learning teacher staffrooms in Japan and East Asia transforming researcher subjectivities 

分 类 号：G531.3[文化科学—教育学]