Dr Shoko Yoneyama

Qualifications

PhD (La Trobe), DipEd (Tsuda), BA (Tsuda)

Awards & Achievements

The Japanese High School: Silence and Reisistnace (London & New York, Routledge 1999 & 2007, kindle edition 2009) is a critical comparative analysis of Japanese and Australian high schools from the perspective of students, with particular focus on Japan, especially school non-attendance and bullying (ijime). 

Awarded a 1996 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching (University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor's award)

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate Courses

Re-Orienting Asia: Towards a Sustainable Future (Previously, Re-Orienting Asia: Popular Voices & Sustainability, and  Japanese Society: Development and the Environment)

Japanese language courses at all levels. 

 

PhD Supervision completed

The Unexpected Transformations of Chinese International Students in Australia (Glen Stafford 2011:Principal supervisor)

Reframing Futoko (School Non-attendance) in Japan: A Social Movement Perspective (So Fei Wong 2008: Principal supervisor) http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/48389

Corporate Warriors or Company Animal?: An Investigation of Dominant Japanese Salaryman Masculinities across Three Generations (Hidaka Tomoko 2006, with Prof. Chilla Bulbeck as Principal Supervisor)

 

Current MPhil and PhD projects

Slow culture artists in Japan

Pilgrimage in Japan

Japan's nuclear energy policy and public participation in nuclear energy policy formation

 

Research Interests

Sociology of education: Japanese education, education in Asia,  education in Australia, comparative education, international education, globalisation of education, student alienation, school non-attendance, bullying, alternative education, Steiner education, student alienation and empowerment, social movement through education

Sociology of food and agriculture: organic farming as social movement

Environmental sociology: environmental pollution in Japan and Asia, Minamata, Fukushima

Sociology of spirituality: theory building, Asian Studies as method

 

Publications

*Yoneyama, S. (2012) 'Life-world: Beyond Fukushima and Minamata', The Asia-Pacific Journal:Japan Focus, Vol 10, Issue 42, No. 2, October 15, 2012.http://www.japanfocus.org/-Shoko-YONEYAMA/3845#  NB: PDF version is available at the bottom of this homepage. 　「いのちの世界」：フクシマとミナマタを超えて

*Yoneyama, S. (2012) 'Critiquing critical thinking: Asia's contribution towards sociological conceptualisation', in Song, Xianlin, and Cadman, Kate (eds) Bridging Transcultural Divides: Asian Languages and Cultures in Global Higher Education, University of Adelaide Press, pp.231-249. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/transcultural-divides/transcultural-divides-ebook.pdf

*Williams, B. and Yoneyama, S. (2011) 'Japan's Education System: Problems and prospects in post-industrial age', in Jain, P. and Williams, B. (eds) Japan in Decline: Fact or Fiction, Global Oriental, pp.147-165.

*Yoneyama, S.(2010) 'Spirituality in life stories in postmodernising Japan', Conference Proceedings (refereed), the 18th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide, 5-8 July 2010. http://asaa.asn.au/ASAA2010/index.php#review

*Yoneyama, S. (2010) 'What Teachers Can Do about Bullying in the Classroom', in Ng, Esther and Rigby, Ken (eds) Breaking the Silence: Bullying in Singapore, Armour Publishing, ISBN 9789814270250. pp.163-181.

Yoneyama, S. (2009) 'Primary School in Japan: Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education' by Peter Cave (London, Routledge, 2007, 222pp.), book review, Japanese Studies, 29 (2):305-307.

*Yoneyama, S. (2008) 'The Era of Bullying: Japan under Neoliberalism', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 31 December.  http://www.japanfocus.org/-Shoko-YONEYAMA/3001 Also listed on Asia-Studies Monthly Highlights for January 2009 at http://www.asia-studies.com/index.html

*Yoneyama, S. (2007) 'Moving Teachers from Complicity in Bullying to Change', Essential Teacher (Compleat Links) 4(1) March, pp.7, ISSN 15456501 http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/secetdoc.asp?CID=1479&DID=7979

*Yoneyama, S. and Murphey, T. (2007) 'Tipping Points of Class Size: When caring communications and relationships become possible?' JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching) Hokkaido Journal, 11:16-28. http://www.jalthokkaido.net/jh_journal/2007/yoneyama_murphey.pdf (PDF available below under 'Files')

Yoneyama, S. (2007) 'Holistic Approaches to Bullying: the "Method of Shared Concern" and Autonomy-Oriented Learning', Learning Learning http://ld-sig.org/LL/LL14one/2007a.pdf#page=27 (with Japanese translation by Aya Sasaki)(Invited paper) or http://ld-sig.org/LL/2007a.pdf

Nagata Yoshiyuki 永田佳之& Yoneyama Shoko米山尚子(2007) 「越境する学習者のまなざし：オーストラリアの日本人留学生から見た日本の教育社会」 [A comparative assessment by border-crossing learners: Japan as education society seen from the perspective of Japanese international students in Australian schools], The Proceedings of 59th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology 日本教育社会学界第59回大会、Ibaraki University, 茨城大学、22-23 September, pp.247-250.

Yoneyama, S. (2007) The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance (Paperback edition through Routledge Paperbacks Direct), London and New York, Routledge, 312 pp. ISBN:978-0-415-43829-2. Also available as eBook.

*Yoneyama, S. and K. Rigby (2006) 'Bully/Victim students and classroom climate', Youth Studies Australia, 25 (3):34-41.

*Yoneyama, S. (2006) 'Student-teacher relations as the key to sustainable learning: Japanese education in comparative perspective', The Language Teacher, 30(7):48-51.

Yoneyama, S. (2006) 「学び良ければすべてよし：生徒の学校観に見るシュタイナー学校の＜学習力＞」永田佳之代表『「公設民営」型学校に関する国際比較研究』科学研究費補助金基礎研究（B)研究課題番号15402047 'Student Perceptions of the School Learning Environment: A Comparative Study of Steiner and Mainstream Schools', Yoshiyuki Nagata (ed.) 'An International Comparative Study on Independent Schools with Public Subsidies', Research Report for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS/Kaken) Project no. 15402047, pp.72-77.

Yoneyama, S. (2004) Book Review: Roger Goodman and David Phillips (eds), Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? Oxford: Symposium Books.  Japanese Studies, 24(1):140-142. (See attached below under 'Files')

*Yoneyama, S. and Naito, A. (2003) 'Problems with the Paradigm: the school as a factor in understanding bullying (with special reference to Japan)' British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24(3): 315-330.

*Yoneyama, S. (2002) 'Japanese "Educational Reform": The Plan for the Twenty-First Century', in Maswood, J., Graham, J., and Miyajima, H. (eds), Japan: Change and Continuity, London, Routledge Curzon: 192-213.

*S.Yoneyama (2001) 'Stress, disempowerment, bullying, and School Non-attendance', The Language Teacher (Special issue on meritocracy), 25(10):17-22. http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2001/10/yoneyama

*Yoneyama, S. (2000) 'Student Discourse on Tokokyohi (School Phobia/ Refusal) in Japan: Burnout or Empowerment?', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 21(1): 77-94.

Yoneyama, S. (2000) 'Education in Contemporary Japan: Inequality and Diversity' by Kaori Okano and Motonori Tsuchida (book review), Japanese Studies, 20 (1): 112-115.

**Yoneyama, S. (1999) The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance, London and New York, Routledge, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-415-15439-1(hb)

*Yoneyama, S. (1997) 'Japanese Studies: Prospects in the Context of Australian Higher Education', Japanese Studies, 17(2-3): 47-56.

Yoneyama, S. (1996) 'Growth in Organic Agriculture: Japanese Farmers' Perspectives', Ecology and Farming, January: 14-16.

*Yoneyama, S, and Radford, M. (1996) 'Social Cost of Stress: the Educational System and its Effect upon Students in Japan', in M. Low and H. Marriott (ed.), Japanese Science, Technology and Economic Growth Down-Under, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, pp.158-197. (Book chapter)

Yoneyama, S. (1996) 'Difference and Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society by John Clammer' (book review), Japanese Studies, 16 (1): 108-111.

*Yoneyama, S. (1995) 'Prescriptions from the Periphery: Japanese Farmers and the Search for a Survival Strategy', Japanese Studies, 15(1): 49-76.

Aoki, N. and Yoneyama, S. (1995) Osutoraria Rokusennichi o Yomu: Reading Yoshio Sugimoto's '6000 Days in Australia', Japanese Studies Centre, Melbourne (Expanded second edition, 250 pp.) (Japanese language textbook)

*Yoneyama, S. (1995) 'Organic Farming: Japanese Farmers' Search for a Survival Strategy', Asia Pacific Journal on Environment and Development, 1(2): 68-91.

Aoki, N. and Yoneyama, S. (1994) Osutoraria Rokusennichi o Yomu: Reading Yoshio Sugimoto's '6000 Days in Australia', Japanese Studies Centre, Melbourne, 135 pp. (Japanese language textbook)

Yoneyama, S. (1991) 'Multi-cultural Australia by Masami Sekine' (book review), Minami Hankyu hyoron [Southern Hemisphere Review], 7: 95-96.

*Refereed journal articles, books, book chapters

Professional Associations

Social Science Editor, Japanese Studies (-2012)

The Japanese Studies Association of Australia

Japan Holistic Education Society

The Japan Society of Educational Sociology

Community Engagement

SBS Radio Japanese 

Pictures of Fukushima Children, 23 October 2012

Nuke accidents and cosmopolitans, 3 July 2012

Member, The Coalition to Decrease Bullying, Harassment and Violence in South Australian Schools launched in 2005 by the Rann Government as the peak body representing three universities in South Australia, SA Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS), Catholic Education South Australia (CESA), and Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA) to address the issues of bullying, harassment and violence in South Australian Schools. http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/speced2/pages/default/a25792/

 

Files

• Life-world: Beyond Fukushima and Minamata - Life-world_Yoneyama_2012.pdf [3.4MB] (application/pdf)
• Book Review: Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? Roger Goodman and David Phillips (eds) - Book_Review_Can_the_Japanese_Change_their_Education_System.pdf [263.3K] (application/pdf)
• Steiner Education - Comparative Study (Publication No.7) - シュタイナー学校比較研究　出版物No7.pdf [520.1K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 27 Nov 2012