Why highly educated Japanese women are not playing a more active role in society: A case study using Ueno’s qualitative analysis method (original) (raw)

WISE Chuo: A Career Education Program for Female Students Majoring in Science and Technology

Journal of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology, 2009

In cooperation with industries, our faculty is launching an education program designed to prompt more female students to go on to higher education and foster them as science and technology personnel who will be able to work for their company’s R&D division over the long term after graduation. That is what the WISE Chuo is all about. Through undergraduate and graduate educations, we will provide our female students with more opportunities for contacting their female role models who are currently playing an active role in business communities, to allow the students to feel R&D positions close to them and motivate them to choose such profession as their lifetime career. Even during their school days, we will also give them a place for acquiring knowledge and/or way of thinking necessary to work in the business world. Keywords– gender equality, cooperative education, industry career education, role model

A Comparison of SCAT and Ueno’s Qualitative Analysis as the Qualitative Data Analysis: A Study of Interview Data from a Kindergarten Director

2019

The purpose of this study is to compare the characteristics of SCAT (Steps for Coding and Theorization) and Ueno’s qualitative analysis as a form of qualitative data analysis applied to interview data from a kindergarten director. The subject and methods of the study are as follows. (1) We interviewed the director of Kindergarten A. (2) The research question asked why he started to run the child-based kindergarten. (3) We analyzed the interview data using SCAT. (4) We also analyzed the interview data using Ueno’s qualitative analysis. (5) We compared their characteristics. The analyses made the following points clear. First, the SCAT is characterized by the decontextualisation of the segmented text, step by step. By contrast, Ueno’s qualitative analysis is marked by its recontextualization through the mapping and charting of metadata. Second, when we use SCAT, we need to understand the theory of qualitative inquiry and must read the text over and over, analyzing it over time. Howeve...

How Do US Researchers Recognize Japanese Culture of Early Childhood Education and Care? : Focusing on Socialization of Children

2016

This study clarifies how do US researchers recognize Japanese culture of early childhood education and care and consider the significance of Japanese culture of early childhood education and care through reviewing 5 US studies that focused on socialization of children at Japanese nursery school. As a result, US researchers recognize Japanese culture of early childhood education and care as follows. First, White & LeVine (1986), Walsh (2004), and Tobin (1992) recognize values of socialization of children in Japan as not adapting children to group life but instilling them selfhood of “omote” and “ura”. Second, White & LeVine (1986) recognize Japanese childcare method encouraging the socialization of children is “Love-oriented techniques”. And they recognize this method influenced by Japanese implicit educational theory, such as “pamper”. Third, Tobin (1992) and Walsh (2004) recognize that the environments of space, time, and word in Japanese nursery school are influenced by Japanese i...

A review of studies on persuasion in Japan (1)

2001

The purpose of this study is to review the studies on persuasion in Japan. An examination has been made of 152 persuasion studies published in Japan-141 journal papers and 11 technical books. The present study consists of the following four parts. 1. Overview of persuasion studies in Japan: (1) quantitative characteristics of persuasion studies, (2) change in the number of persuasion studies with the times, (3) viewpoint of the review. 2. General problems of persuasion studies: (1) general review of persuasion studies, (2) resistance to persuasion, (3) cognitive and information processing approaches to persuasion, (4) persuasion studies of elementary school children, (5) broader review including persuasion studies. 3. Source variables: (1) credibility, attractiveness and power, (2) other source variables. 4. Message variables: (1) fear-threat appeals, (2) threat to freedom and psychological reactance, (3) humor, (4) argument quality, (5) message organization, (6)message repetition

A review of studies on persuasion in Japan (2)

2001

The purpose of this study is to review the studies on persuasion in Japan. An examination has been made of 152 persuasion studies published in Japan-141 journal papers and 11 technical books. The present study consists of the following five parts. 4. Message variables: (7) discrepancy, (8) ego involvement, (9) other message variables. 5. Recipient variables: (1) gender, (2) age, (3) personality, (4) other recipient variables. 6. Context variables: (1) warning, (2) mood and emotion, (3) distraction, (4) other context variables. 7. Special studies on persuasion: (1) nonverbal cues and persuasive effect, (2) unplanned field experiments, (3) persuasion in mutual persuasive situations, (4) utterances in mutual persuasive situations, (5) persuasion schema and writing opinion essays, (6) role playing and persuasion, (7) effect of linguistic style on persuasion, (8) re-change of attitude. 8. Conclusion. The study has revealed that persuasion studies on most themes except the specific five (...