Connecting indigenous Ainu, university and local industry in Japan: the Urespa Project
This paper examines how collaboration amongst university, indigenous community and private sector companies can promote Ainu participation in higher education, drawing on a case study of the Urespa Project in Sapporo University, Japan. In this project, the university offers scholarships to Ainu students, requiring them to take a special course in Ainu culture and history and develop collaborations with partner private sector companies. We suggest that 'the two-way learning' that the Urespa Project advocates signifies a challenge to the conventional approach to Ainu education, which has long ce ... Show more
Authors: Maeda, Koji; Okano, Kaori H.
Published: Sydney, New South Wales, Oceania Comparative and International Education Society, 2013
Resource type: Article
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