Service Learning & Field PlacementsIES Center Initiatives2002 IES Annual ConferenceOctober 18-19, 2002: Service Learning & Field Placements IES Center Initiatives 2002 IES Annual Conference October 18-19, 2002 “Living, learning and working alongside people from the host culture in an attempt to understand a setting enhances the willingness to reserve judgement, to test hypotheses, and to reevaluate what one has observed.”


Slide2: IES全米大学連盟東京留学センター 留学への全体論的アプローチ Arrival & Welcome Orientation IES Tokyo Center A Holistic Approach To Study Abroad On-going Orientation 継続的な トレーニング IES Sponsored Field Trips フィールド トリップ Field Placement Program 社会体験 Japanese Language Program 日本語コース Kanda University of Intl Studies 神田外語大学 Housing Program ホームスティ 寮 Area Studies Course 日本事情 コース Volunteer/ Community Service ボランディア／ 地域活動 Final Exams & Papers Farewell Party! Japanese Area Studies & Field Study Japanese Language 実践日本語 Guest Speakers Japanese Language & Culture Program IES Tokyo Center・Kanda University Aug. 27 - Dec. 21 (22), 2002 Japanese Language 生活日本語 日本の香り シリーズ


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム So, what is this “Field Placement Program” I keep hearing so much about? AN391 Social Organization of Japan (3 Credits, Required) Weekly field placement within a Japanese social setting for the duration of the semester. (Wednesdays, 8-10 hours) Placements are arranged by IES and local travel is reimbursed.


IES 社会体験プログラム: IES 社会体験 プログラム 1. Student emails resume & goals statement. 2. Field Placement Program Coord. seeks placement to fit course and student goals. 3. Meeting between Coordinator and student. Referral is made. (Week 1) 4. Interview is held at host organization. 5. Field Placement & Course begins (Week 4). 6. Placement is facilitated. 7. Student evaluated. (10% / Week 12)


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What types of Field Placements are possible? JETRO アジア経済研究所 Kyodo News The Japan Forum Sumitomo Chem. Engineering Yasukuni Jinja The National Diet Tokyo Toyopet (Toyota Dealer) Japan Civil Liberties Union Knee High Media Mi Kyung Sohn, Carnegie Mellon Univ. 株式会社ブライトキャリア


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What types of Field Placements are possible? 江戸東京博物館 株式会社アクセス 夢の島熱帯植物館 株式会社共立メンテナンス 高輪台高等学校 赤坂山王法律事務所 株式会社キャドセンター 舞台創造研究所 永峰公認会計士事務所 Allen Ross, Austin College 赤坂山王法律事務所


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What types of Field Placements are possible? NIKE Japan GE Asset Management RTKL International Morrison & Foerster, Ito & Mitomi State Street Corporation International Bankers Assoc. Guardian Angels, Japan Visa International, Asia Pacific Arthur Andersen Uno Tax Acct. Tammy Fan, Purdue University ホテルフランクス


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What are the goals of the Field Placement Program? Through a facilitated seminar, to encourage students to collectively share and reflect on field placement experiences as a basis for recognizing, understanding and displaying the social organization of Japan. James Powell, Virginia Military Institute 靖国神社


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What are the goals of the Field Placement Program? To discover the ‘real world’ social organization of Japan as it is naturally exhibited, without imposing a particular framework or theoretical preconception as to what will or should be found there. Maisie McPherson, Simmons College シャトレーゼ土気店


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What are the goals of the Field Placement Program? To develop basic skills of ethnographic inquiry through conducting weekly participant observation, journal writing, and shared reflection. Amber Csaszar, Bucknell University Amnesty International, Japan


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What are the goals of the Field Placement Program? Through weekly field research, to learn how to describe interactions within a social setting, the outcome of these interactions and to discover the meanings the interactions have for the people under study. Ian Young, Williams College 弘法寺


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What are the goals of the Field Placement Program? To develop a greater awareness of one’s ethnocentrism and how these tendencies block the understanding of cultures other than one’s own. In this aim, for students to become more interculturally competent. Matthew Brummer, Bucknell University 株式会社アシスト


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What are the goals of the Field Placement Program? To encourage students to be more patient, objective, and introspective cultural explorers, appreciating the idea of cultural relativism when seeking to understand Japanese social organization. Johnny Grosso, George Wash. Univ. アーサーアンダーセン税務事務所


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム What’s the Seminar: Social Organization of Japan course about? AN391 M. Sugihara & A. Ogden, (3 credits, Required) Student Portfolio (70%) Placement Description & Profile Student Learning Contract Culture Learning Journal (x 4) Topic Oriented Ethnography Gentry Ferrell, Univ. of Rochester 国際文化フォーラム


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム But isn’t this really just an internship program? No. The IES Tokyo student is a learner engaged in a form of on-going, ethnographic research of which the core focus is on the meaning of actions and events to the people within the social setting the student seeks to understand... Amanda Silverman, George Wash. Univ. JETRO 日本貿易振興協会


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム I don’t get it. What is Participant-Observation? The participant-observer has two goals: to engage in activities appropriate to the situation, and to observe the activities, people and physical aspects of the situation. In doing participant observation for ethnographic purposes, both questions and answers must be discovered in the social setting being studied. Damon Sexton, Indiana University 株式会社トムソンコーポレーション


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Huh? What exactly is ethnographic research? Ethnography offers students the chance to step outside their narrowly defined cultural backgrounds, to set aside socially inherited ethnocentrism, if only for a brief period, and to apprehend the world from the viewpoint of other human beings who live by different meaning systems. Rebecca Shoff, University of Virginia 羽田雄一郎事務所


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Hmm... A bit more on ethnographic research... What cultural assumptions are people using to organize their behavior and interpret their experience? What meanings do these interactions have for them? Rather than collecting “data” about people, the IES student seeks to learn from people, to be taught by them. They are not agents of change. Frank Kirby, Austin College 市川市立妙典小学校


IES Tokyo Field Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験プログラム “A person can be witness to a tremendous parade of episodes and yet, if he fails to keep making something out of them..., he gains little in the way of experience from having been around when they happened. It is not what happens around him that makes a man experienced; it is the successive construing and re-construing of what happens, as it happens, that enriches the experience of his life.” George Kelly A Theory of Personality, 1963


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム So, what are the realities or limitations of the program? Rebecca Shoff, University of Virginia 羽田雄一郎事務所 For the Host Organization One day a week/ one semester Language proficiency For the IES Tokyo Student Participation vs. Observation Language proficiency For the IES Center Managing student expectations Cost & Staffing Facilitating reciprocity


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Myths about the Field Placement Program & the Reality Check Myth #1 Students with little or no Japanese skills do not have good field placement assignments. Myth #2 The organization will have project work for me to do everyday. Myth #3 My position will be one with decision making power and responsibility. Melissa Jordan, Rice University 国際文化フォーラム


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Myths about the Field Placement Program & the Reality Check Myth #4 The organization is committed to my Japanese language development. Myth #5 The Seminar course supplements the field placement. Myth #6 The organization is compensated by IES. Rebecca Shoff, University of Virginia 羽田雄一郎事務所


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Myths about the Field Placement Program & the Reality Check Myth #7 All IES field placement organization are familiar with “Internships” and have had other foreign students in their offices. Myth #8 My performance at the field placement does not affect my grade for the seminar course. Rebecca Shoff, University of Virginia 羽田雄一郎事務所


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Myths about the Field Placement Program & the Reality Check Myth #9 The real learning at the organization comes from the work that I am assigned. Myth #10 My time at the organization is limited to 8-10 hours per week. Rebecca Shoff, University of Virginia 羽田雄一郎事務所


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Getting the Whole Picture Group One... What are the organization’s responsibilities to the student? On second thought: What is the motivation for an organization to host an IES student?


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Getting the Whole Picture Group Two... What are the student’s responsibilities to the organization? On second thought: What are some of the challenges that students will face in conducting the field placement?


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Getting the Whole Picture Group Three... What implications will the program have for future professional development? On second thought: What about our personal, academic and intercultural development?


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Getting the Whole Picture Group Four... What are the limitations of the field placement program? On second thought: What are some of the difficulties for IES to arrange field placements in Tokyo?


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Getting the Whole Picture Group Five... How can a field placement be more than an internship? On second thought: We’re study abroad students! What is the value of doing ethnographic research in Japan?


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Some advice from your Senpai... Take advantage of the placement. Try to be placed in an organization that relates to your research interests. Build strong relationships with the people at your field placement. Be prepared for deeper immersion into Japanese culture than even your homestay will offer. Learn as much as you can about the organization. Joshua Lamb, Indiana University NIKE Japan


IES TokyoField Placement Program社会体験プログラム: IES Tokyo Field Placement Program 社会体験 プログラム Some advice from your Senpai... We can either get nothing or a lot from this experience. Students have to realize what matters is how much effort they put in. Be open. Don’t be discouraged easily. Be flexible. Value every day at the placement. It goes by too fast. It’s on you. Go out and do your best. Have fun with it! Joshua Lamb, Indiana University NIKE Japan