名古屋大学 高等教育研究センター

第56回客員教授セミナー 研究指導の文化的背景 −ポストコロニアル時代の模索 キャサリン・マナトゥンガ　氏 オーストラリア・クイーンズランド大学 教育開発機構 上級講師 2011年3月10日（木) 14:00〜16:00 名古屋大学東山キャンパス 教育発達科学研究科・教育学部本館1階 大会議室

講演要旨

Synopsis

This seminar explored the dynamic interplays of power and identity that circulate within intercultural supervision in Australia and within supervision in Japan. Supervision is already a complicated pedagogy but when supervisors and students also originate from diverse cultures and educational systems, these complex forces become overlaid with additional cultural factors that must be taken into account. So too, in the Japanese context, where a project of Westernization has been taking place since the Meiji Restoration from 1868 onwards and where there are many instances of creative transculturation, supervision is inevitably shaped in complicated ways by this history.

This seminar presented the findings from two studies of intercultural supervision experiences of culturally diverse supervisors and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Sciences at an Australian university. Drawing upon several post-colonial metaphors, Dr Manathunga investigated how supervisors’ pedagogical practices and students’ learning approaches are impacted upon by working in an intercultural supervision space. In particular, she highlighted an example of assimilation, where an Australian female supervisor required a German female student to conform to Anglo-American styles of writing for publication. She also incorporated an example of unhomeliness in supervision, where a Chinese male supervisor experienced difficulties in supervising a Chinese male student who felt unable to defend his own ideas against his supervisor’s opinions because he believed that this was not polite or appropriate behaviour. She also presented an example of transculturation where a Japanese female supervisor (and former student), who had lived and researched in Australia for more than 20 years, described how she was able to blend largely Western postmodernist theories about subjectivity and identity with her Japanese values about collectivity, receiprocity and holistic connections between the mind, body and spirit to create an original contribution to knowledge as a doctoral student.

Dr Manathunga also outlined some preliminary observations from a small pilot study of Masters and Doctoral supervision in the Humanities and Social Sciences and in the Sciences at a Japanese university. All of the participants in this study were Japanese so the focus was on the issue of the Westernization of knowledge and the dominance of the English language in academic writing in many disciplines. This cultural history, combined with the number of Japanese professors who received part of their research training or postdoctoral experience in Western countries and the increasing influence of the English language in many academic disciplines, has ensured that transculturation may have become a feature of Japanese research and, in turn, supervision.

開催案内

第56回客員教授セミナー

講演題目

研究指導の文化的背景

−ポストコロニアル時代の模索

講演者

キャサリン・マナトゥンガ　氏

（オーストラリア・クイーンズランド大学 教育開発機構 上級講師）

日時

2011年3月10日（木) 14:00〜16:00

場所

名古屋大学東山キャンパス 教育発達科学研究科・教育学部 大会議室（教育学部本館1階）

講演概要

　どんな研究指導にも教員による指導と学生側の主体性というせめぎあいが存在する。指導教員と学生の信頼関係や教授方法という表層の下には、両者が背負っている文化的背景や教育システムが潜在する。このセミナーでは、オーストラリアの大学において指導教員と学生の文化的多様性が研究指導にもたらす影響について紹介する。ポストコロニアリズムのメタファーを用いて、異文化的な研究指導環境が教員による研究指導および学生の学習にいかに影響を及ぼしているかを考察したい。名古屋大学で実施した研究指導に関する調査経過も併せて紹介する。

Dynamic interplays of power and identity circulate within any form of supervision. When supervisors and students also originate from diverse cultures and educational systems, these complex forces become overlaid with additional cultural factors that must be taken into account in supervision relationships and pedagogy. This Visiting Professor’s Seminar presents the findings from two studies of intercultural supervision experiences of culturally diverse supervisors and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Sciences at an Australian university. Drawing upon several post-colonial metaphors, this paper investigates how supervisors’ pedagogical practices and students’ learning approaches are impacted upon by working in an intercultural supervision space. This seminar will also outline some preliminary observations from a small pilot study of supervision in the Humanities and Social Sciences and in the Sciences at a Japanese university.

対象

研究指導や異文化間教育に関心のある教員、大学院生を歓迎します。

• このセミナーの講演部分は英語で行いますが、キーワードは日英併記します。質疑応答の際にも日本語による質問やコメントを適宜通訳しますので、多くの方のお越しをお待ちしております。

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