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Kaori Okano - Research Projects

1. A joint project on multicultural interaction in schools in Japan with R.Tsuneyoshi (Tokyo University, Japan) and S. Boocock (Rutgers University, the US). Currently under review.
2. A joint project (with colleagues at Michigan State University) to produce a work entitled, The Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective. It adopts a civilization-based framework suggested by Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations. I am the editor for the section on Japanese civilization, which contains seven chapters.
3. A project on the global-local interface in education in Japan.
4. Transition to adulthood and beyond in Japan: Class, gender and ethnic identities. This longitudinal ethnographic study has followed a group of working class women since 1989. The previous phases are presented in two monographs, School to work transition in Japan: An ethnographic study (1993) and Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood (February, 2009). (See the publication list).
   

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