Concept
Starting points:
The Learner Development SIG Forum at JALT2012 where those taking part took a critical look at different cases of learner development within the Japanese context ...
Development:
Process & interaction
co-constructed
in each chapter between
the main author(s) , a peer reader responder, and an interdisciplinary reader responder ...
A critical look at learner development within the Japanese context
... with a
bewildering range of perspectives and interactions
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Background
Learner Development Working Papers: Different Cases, Different Interests
この論文集は2012年に開催されたJALT 学習者ディベロプメント研究部会フォーラムにて発表された事例を中心に”Learner Development: Different Cases, Different Interests”と題してまとめたものです。ここでは学習者ディベロプメントの動向を様々な角度からクリティカルに検証していくことで、従来の学術的な枠を越え、ときには教育以外の関連分野の専門家や研究者の独自の見解を取り入れ、特定の研究分野に縛られることなく、より幅広い学際的な視点をもつことを目的としています。この論文集は全12章で構成されます。各章には執筆者の論文と共に執筆者が依頼したピアーレビューヤ(peer reviewer)2名による省察があります。2名のうち、1名は第二言語教育の分野で、とりわけ執筆者と近い研究分野の視点からコメントします。他の1名は 言語教育分野以外の専門家で、それぞれの観点から論文の主旨に対して意見を述べます。このようにインターアクティブな構成にすることで、各論文がより多角的な視点で論じられ、幅広い視野で研究を見据えることを目的としています。
The starting point for this project was the Learner Development SIG Forum at JALT2012 where those taking part took a critical look at different cases of learner development. This writing project tries to break out of institutional boxes by attempting to make connections with perspectives and positions from a wide variety of disciplinary areas within education, other professional worlds, and/or in wider society. The final publication consists of 9 chapters as of November 2014, with each chapter including a peer reader response and an interdisciplinary reader response. The peer reader responder has interests close to the author’s (s’) work and shares views on a specific chapter’s focus from a second language education perspective. The interdisciplinary reader responder in many cases is someone working outside the field of language education in Japan who can bring interesting and critical perspective to the main issues raised in the working paper. Thus, each chapter offers multiple, and unexpected, critical perspectives on the learner development issues that it deals with.