Tokunaga Tomoko

Affiliation

Faculty of Human Sciences

Official title

Assistant Professor

ORCID

0000-0003-2456-7020

URL

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomoko_Tokunaga
https://researchmap.jp/t_toku/?lang=japanese

Research fields

Sociology of education

Sociology

Research keywords

Anthropology of Education

Comparative Education

Immigrant and Education

Multicultural Co-existence

Border Crossing

Minority

United States

Empowerment

Ethnography

Research projects

Creating Ibasho and Empowering Immigrant Youth: Using Community-Based Participatory Research	2018-04 -- 2021-03	Tomoko Tokunaga	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Study Abroad Students’ Identification Practices, Motivations, and Learning Evaluations: Examining Heterogeneity and Fluidity	2017-04 -- 2020-03	Gregory Poole	Japan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Creating Ibasho for Immigrant Children: Community Engagement and Collaboration in Japan and the United States	2015-04 -- 2018-03	Tomoko Tokunaga	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Ethnography of Constructions of Home for Asian Immigrant Children in Japan and the United States	2013-04 -- 2015-03	Tomoko Tokunaga	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Career history

2019-04 -- (current)	University of Tsukuba Faculty of Human Sciences, Division of Education Assistant Professor
2018-04 -- 2019-03	Gunma Prefectural Women's University Faculty of International Communication Lecturer
2015-01 -- 2018-03	Keio University International Center Project Assistant Professor
2014-03 -- 2014-08	University of Massachusetts Boston Visiting Scholar
2013-04 -- 2014-12	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow (International Christian University)

Academic background

-- 2013	University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education Doctoral Course
-- 2012	University of Maryland, College Park Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership Doctoral Course
-- 2007	University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education Master Course
-- 2005	University of Tsukuba 第三学群 College of International Studies

Degree

2012-12	Ph.D. (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies)	University of Maryland, College Park
2007-3	M.A. (Education)	University of Tokyo

Licenses and qualifications

2005-03	First Class Teaching Certificate (junior high school, English)
2005-03	First Class Teaching Certificate (senior high school, English)
2008-06	Social Researcher Certificate
2008-06	Expert Social Researcher

Academic societies

2007 -- (current)	THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
2007 -- (current)	INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN
2008 -- (current)	Association for Asian Studies
2009 -- (current)	Comparative and International Education Society
2010 -- (current)	American Educational Studies Association
2012 -- (current)	American Anthropological Association
2013 -- (current)	JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
2015 -- (current)	Japan Comparative Education Society

Honors & Awards

2019	Young Scholar Book Award, Japan Society of Educational Sociology
2013	Concha Delgado Gaitan Presidential Early Career Fellowship Award
2013	Japan Society of Educational Sociology (JSES) International Award
2013	American Educational Research Association (AERA), SIG: REAPA, Outstanding Dissertation Award
2008	Fulbright Fellowship, Graduate Study

Refereed academic journal/Refereed international conference paper

• “Is He Allowed to Have a Crush on You?”: Interrupting Adultism in Fieldwork with Youth (advance online publication)
  Douthirt-Cohen Beth; Tokunaga Tomoko
  Ethnography and Education, 2019-01
• Multicultural Education in Japan
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, 2017-12
• Teaching and Learning through Team Ethnography in a Multicultural Class
  徳永智子; 井本由紀
  Intercultural Education/(46)/pp.47-62, 2017-08
• ‘We Dominate the Basement!’: How Asian American Girls Construct a Borderland Community
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education/29(9)/pp.1086-1099, 2016-06
• Imagining Homes in the Deterritorialized World: Use of Media and Popular Culture among Asian American Girls
  徳永智子
  Intercultural Education/(40)/pp.70-84, 2014-08
• When the Social Justice Learning Curve Isn't As Steep: How an Introductory Graduate Course in Social Foundations Changed the Conversation
  Cohen Beth Douthirt; Tokunaga Tomoko; Colvin Demetrius J....
  Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association/49(3)/pp.263-284, 2013-05
• The Ongoing Pursuit of Educational Equity in Japan: The Accreditation of Ethnic High Schools
  Tomoko Tokunaga & Beth Douthirt-Cohen
  Equity & Excellence in Education/45(2)/pp.320-333, 2012-05
• ‘I’m Not Going to Be in Japan Forever’: How Filipina Immigrant Youth in Japan Construct the Meaning of “Home”
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Ethnography and Education/6(2)/pp.179-193, 2011-06
• Educational Expectations and Aspirations of Filipina Newcomer Students:" Significant Others" and "Immigration Experience"
  徳永智子
  Intercultural Education/(28)/pp.87-99, 2008-07

Other articles

• [Book Introduction] Tomoko Tokunaga, Learning to Belong in the World: An Ethnography of Asian American Girls
  徳永智子
  Comparative education/(58)/p.162, 2019-03
• Possibilities and Constraints of Immigrant Students in the Japanese Educational System
  徳永智子
  Background Paper Commissioned for Global Education Monitoring Report 2019, Migration, Displacement and Education: Building Bridges, Not Walls, 2018
• Moving Beyond Intercultural Exchange
  徳永智子
  Jyugyo zukuri network/(27)/pp.26-31, 2017-10
• Youth, Asian American
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  M.Y. Danico (Ed.). Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia/2/pp.973-978, 2014-09
• Filipina Immigrant Girls’ Lived Experience in Japan
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Asia Pacific Memo/#134 , 2012-02
• Learning from the In-Between Spaces of Filipina Immigrant Youth in Japan
  Tomoko Tokunaga
  Research Connections: An Annual publication from the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity/pp.12-15, 2011-03

Books

• Nonformal Education and Ibasho: Nighttime Junior High School, NPO, Ethnic Association and Media
  德永 智子; 住野満稲子
  Rethinking Education from Migrants, Nakanishiya, pp.219-231, 2019-09
• “To Find a Better Way to Live a Life in the World”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Ibasho Project with Chinese Immigrant Youth in the United States
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Children and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, pp.148-164, 2019-04
• Minority
  德永 智子; 高橋史子
  SDGs時代の教育：すべての人に質の高い学びの機会を, Gakubunsha, pp.134-149, 2019-04
• Bringing into Language Experience that Cannot Be Brought into Language: Reflecting on the Practice of Multicultural Team Ethnography
  井本由紀; 德永 智子
  Past, Present, and Future of Language Education from Anthropological and Sociological Points of View: Ideologies on Language and Language Education, Sangensha, pp.246-266, 2018-11
• Japanese Education in a Global Age: Sociological Reflections and Future Directions
  Yonezawa Akiyoshi; Kitamura Yuto; Yamamoto Beverley; Toku...
  Springer, 2018-08
• Growing Up in Multicultural Japan: Diversifying Educational Experiences of Immigrant Students
  Tokunaga Tomoko; Nukaga Misako; Takahashi Fumiko
  Japanese Education in a Global Age: Sociological Reflections and Future Directions, Springer, pp.155-174, 2018-08
• Learning to Belong in the World: An Ethnography of Asian American Girls
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Springer, 2018-03
• Co-producing Glocal Knowledge: Possibilities of International Education Courses in Japan
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Conceptual Shifts and Contextualized Practices in Education for Glocal Interaction: Issues and Implications, Springer, pp.127-146, 2017-11
• Breaking in or Dropping out? Filipina Immigrant Girls Envisioning Alternative Lives in a Globalized World
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Globalization and Japanese "Exceptionalism" in Education: Insiders' Views into a Changing System, Routledge, pp.95-111, 2017-09
• Crossing Borders and Conducting Fieldwork in Education: A Collaborative Autoethnography
  井本由紀; 德永 智子
  Engaging Language: An Invitation to Dialogic Education and Research, University of Tokyo Press, pp.115-140, 2017-05
• Empowerment of Immigrant Children in a Globalized World: Possibilities of NPOs in the US
  德永智子
  Education of Immigrant Children: Human Resources Development for ‘Internal Internationalization’, Kanyou Shuppan, pp.75-82, 2017-03
• "I Feel Proud to Be an Immigrant": How a Youth Program Supports Ibasho Creation for Chinese Immigrant Students in the US
  Tokunaga Tomoko; Huang Chu
  Chinese-Heritage Students in North American Schools: Understanding Hearts and Minds Beyond Test Scores, Routledge, pp.164-179, 2016-03

Conference, etc.

• (Un)Learning Forms of Knowledge and Positionings: Dialogic Autoethnography of Transnational Female Academics in Japan
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association 2019/2019-11
• 定時制高校における参加型アクションリサーチの可能性と課題－居場所づくりの協働実践をふりかえる－
  德永 智子
  異文化間教育学会第40回大会/2019-06-09
• Diverging Academic Trajectories of Immigrant Students in Japan: The Possibilities of In-and-Out of School Policies and Practices
  Tokunaga Tomoko; Nukaga Misako
  Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society 2019/2019-04-16
• Multicultural Team Ethnography as Border-Crossing Practice: Reflections from Two ‘Returnee’ Academics at a Japanese University
  Imoto Yuki; Tokunaga Tomoko
  Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies 2019/2019-03-21
• Exploration of Collaborative Ibasho Creation Project with Youth in Tokyo: Using Participatory Action Research
  Tokunaga Tomoko
  Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association 2018/2018-11-16
• Ibasho Creation and Chinese Immigrant Youth in the United States
  德永 智子
  29th Annual Conference of Intercultural Education Society of Japan/2018-06-09

Teaching

2020-01 -- 2020-01	Sociology of Education	University of Tsukuba
2019-10 -- 2019-12	Research Methods in Education II	University of Tsukuba
2019-09 -- 2019-09	Sociology of Education	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-12	Sociology of Education I	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-12	Sociological Inquiry into Education I	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-06	Sociology of School Education	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-12	Seminar on Sociology of Education	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-12	Seminar on Sociology of Human Coexistence	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-12	Seminar on Education for Human Coexistence	University of Tsukuba
2019-04 -- 2019-06	Methodology of Human Care Science I	University of Tsukuba

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Other educational activities

2019-07 -- 2019-07	令和元年度筑波大学研究室体験学習講師	茨城県立竹園高等学校
2019-07 -- 2019-07	令和元年度教員免許状更新講習講師「学校を巡る近年の状況の変化：マイノリティと教育」	University of Tsukuba
2018-11 -- 2018-11	群馬県立女子大学公開講座講師「多文化共生と教育」	群馬県立女子大学
2018-10 -- 2018-10	平成30年度帰国・外国人児童生徒教育及び国際理解教育担当指導主事等連絡協議会講義講師「グローバル社会を生きる移民の子どもと教育：エンパワメントを目指して」	文部科学省
2018-08 -- 2018-08	平成30年度教員免許状更新講習講師「多文化共生を目指した学校教育」	上智大学
2017-08 -- 2017-08	平成29年度教員免許状更新講習講師「多文化共生社会のなかの学校：『内なる国際化』論から考える」	明治学院大学

Talks

• Immigrants in Multicultural Japan
  德永 智子
  Japan Foundation Asia Center Forum "Designing Multicultural Coexistence Societies: An Asian Perspective"/2019-10
• 多文化の若者たちの居場所づくりと大学の役割
  德永 智子
  アーツカウンシル東京・一般社団法人kuriya主催 「Betweens Passport Initiativeシェアリング・セッションー多文化な若者たちの居場所づくりそれぞれの現場から見えてきた今－」/2018-03
• 移民の若者たちを取り巻く環境
  德永 智子
  アーツカウンシル東京・一般社団法人kuriya主催「Betweens Passport Initiativeシェアリング・セッション－学び合いからエンパワメントへ－」/2017-02
• グローバル社会を生きる移民の子どものエンパワメント：アメリカのNPOの取り組みから
  德永 智子
  明治学院大学教養教育センター・社会学部共同プロジェクト「内なる国際化」に対応した人材の育成　第2回シンポジウム「内なる国際化」を考えるII－外国につながる子どもたちの教育について－/2016-10
• グローバル社会を生きるフィリピン系女子生徒のライフコース選択：国際化と多文化化の狭間で
  德永 智子
  草加市・獨協大学地域研究プロジェクト第2回シンポジウム/2015-12

Professional activities

2019-06 -- (current)	INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN	研究委員会副委員長
2019-06 -- (current)	International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education	Manuscript reviewer
2019-02 -- (current)	Springer	Book proposal reviewer
2018-11 -- 2019-09	THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY	研究倫理ワーキング会議委員
2017-12 -- (current)	JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION	世界教育学会（WERA）実行委員会委員
2017-10 -- (current)	THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY	Committee member, Directorate of International Affairs
2017-06 -- 2019-06	INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN	若手交流委員会委員
2015-07 -- (current)	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Manuscript reviewer
2015-06 -- 2019-06	INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN	Editorial member, Bulletin of the Intercultural Education Society of Japan
2014-09 -- 2015-09	THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY	国際活動奨励賞特別委員会委員

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Other activities

2019-06 -- (current)	Advisor, EYES for Embracing Diversity: Multicultural Coexistence and Art, Asia Center, Japan Foundation
2018-12 -- 2018-12	東京都・アーツカウンシル東京・一般社団法人kuriya主催「Betweens Passport Initiative シェアリング・セッション」「『日本人』／『移民』を超えて：若者のリーダーシップを育てる」モデレーター
2017-01 -- 2017-01	和光鶴川小学校公開研究会「『知りたい』『話したい』を育てる異文化・国際理解教育」共同研究者

(Last updated: 2019-12-10)