Multilingualism and Local-Global Identities: Japanese Language Education in Regional Australia

Barbara Hartley

doi:10.47381/aijre.v14i2.503

Multilingualism and Local-Global Identities

Japanese Language Education in Regional Australia

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Barbara Hartley University of Queensland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v14i2.503

Keywords:

Japanese language, language policies

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the value accruing to a regional area in Australia from the location of an undergraduate Japanese language education program in a university in that area. The focus is on the manner is which the inclusion of such a
program enhances the sustainability of the area. Sustainability is here defmed as the resilience demonstrated by social subjects in the absence:,ofthe full range of services available in more densely populated and resource advantaged areas. Such resilience
implies an ongoing capacity on the part of subjects to contribute productively to social and economic networks in the area. The rliscussion includes two cases of graduates of the program under review. On the basis of these cases, the argument is advanced that local regional and rural area access to a tertiary sector second language program offers a unique and valuable strategic dimension to the personal and professional development of social agents in regional areas and to the sustainability of these areas generally.

Author Biography

Barbara Hartley, University of Queensland

Barbara Hartley has recently moved from a position as Lecturer in Japanese in the School of Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, New Zealand to take up a position in Japanese studies at The University of Queensland. Her research interests include Japanese literature.

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01-07-2004

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Hartley, B. (2004). Multilingualism and Local-Global Identities: Japanese Language Education in Regional Australia. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 14(2), 27–38. https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v14i2.503

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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2004): Education in Rural Australia

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JOURNAL PAPERS

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