Robert W. Aspinall
Robert W. Aspinall is a Professor in the Center for Global Education at
Doshisha University, Kyoto. He was a secondary school teacher in England
before coming to Japan on the JET programme. After completing a D.Phil.
doctoral degree at St Antony’s College, Oxford he worked at Nagoya University
and then Shiga University. A specialist in the politics of education, his
most recent book is International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of
Globalisation and Risk (Global Oriental, 2013).
List of publications since 2014:
Robert W. Aspinall (sole author) “Limits to the Internationalisation of
Higher Education in Island Nations: Nationalism and Foreign Language Education
Policy in Universities in Japan and England”. In Education Forum Volume
15, March 2018 pp 79 – 90, The Research Institute for Higher Education,
Hiroshima University.
Robert W. Aspinall (sole author) “Children’s rights in a risk society:
the case of schooling in Japan” in Japan Forum Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2016
(pp 135-154).
Robert W. Aspinall (sole author) “Is ‘Dynamism without Risk’ Possible in
the Japanese University Sector? A Critique of the 2009 OECD Report on Higher
Education in Japan.” In The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese
Higher Education: Is Japanese Education Really Changing? John Mock, Hiroaki
Kawamura and Naeko Naganuma (eds.) Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2016 (pp107
– 119).
Robert W. Aspinall (sole author) (2015): Children's rights in a risk society:
the case of
schooling in Japan, Japan Forum (published on line), DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2015.1076871,
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2015.1076871
Robert W. Aspinall (sole author) Book review of Measuring Quality of Undergraduate
Higher Education in Japan Reiko Yamada, Springer 2014. The review appears
in Journal of International and Comparative Education 4 (1), 2015.
Robert W. Aspinall (sole author)
“Education and Risk: The Application of Risk Society Theory to the Study
of Education Systems in Europe, America and Asia.” Center for Risk Research,
Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Discussion Paper No. A-11, July
2014.