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	<title>Searching for Accurate Maps &#187; Japanese education</title>
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	<description>Rational beings make choices. To make the right choices, we need accurate maps. This is a personal search for such maps of life, including of society and culture, learning and teaching languages, cross-cultural communication and economics</description>
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		<title>Stand up! Stand up, for the Emperor!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I used to feel sorry for these people, and I do feel a lingering sympathy, but not much and it&#8217;s ebbing away quickly. Why are these people surprised? What were they expecting?  The state is often institutionalized coercion: if they can make everyone study the same subjects, from the same textbooks, why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to set the bar for EFL classes at Japanese universities?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photo credit: Limbo &#8211; &#8220;How Low Can You Go?&#8221; by sidneysealine3 on Flickr) The other day, I met an acquaintance who, like me, teaches English at a Japanese university. We were attending a wokshop, and at lunch he asked me: is very basic EFL really suitable for university students? Isn&#8217;t the bar being set too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting &#8220;A Vision of students Today&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been an admirer of Mike Wesch, anthropology prof at Kansas State University, ever since I saw his very cool and slick video The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) He then had some of his Cultural Anthropology students help him make another YouTube video to tell the world what they think of their education: [...]]]></description>
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