DERRAH Richard

    General Education Division Associate Professor
Last Updated :2024/02/01

Researcher Information

Degree

  • PhD Education(Temple University)
  • Masters of Arts(Harvard University)
  • Masters of Education(Boston College)

J-Global ID

Research Interests

  • Applied Linguistics   Japanese History   Teacher Licensing   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Sociology of education

Education

  • 2008/09 - 2017/08  Temple University  Graduate School of Education  Ph.D in Education
  • 2002/09 - 2004/06  Harvard University  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences  M.A. in East Asian Studies
  • 2000/09 - 2002/05  Boston College  M.Ed.
  • 1993/09 - 1996/06  Bridgewater State University  B.A. History

Association Memberships

  • Japan Association for Language Teaching   Comparative and International Educational Society   Association of Asian Studies   

Published Papers

  • Richard H. Derrah; Phillip M. Clark; Kevin Ballou
    Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Refection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change 87 - 102 2022/01 
    In this chapter, the authors utilize sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s “thinking tools” of capital, field, and habitus as part of a framework to examine Japanese university classes and the experiences and viewpoints of students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual academic environment resulting from the crisis produced institutional changes in Japanese universities that dramatically altered the experiences of students. The limitation of students’ interactions to briefly realized virtual classroom relationships with peers, the constraints placed upon university-affiliated extracurricular activities, as well as the unforeseen consequences of online instruction in multiple classes created a new environment with new expectations that in some cases ran counter to Japanese cultural norms in academia. Drawing on previous research and qualitative data collected from several universities, we use symbolic interactionism as a methodology to detail how students as social agents negotiated these new environments.
  • Nihonjinron and education in Japan
    Clark, P; Derrah, R
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Sciences and Education (ICESS) 17 - 22 2019/02 [Refereed]
  • Motivation in the Japanese university language classroom.
    Derrah, R.
    Proceedings of the Universal Academic Cluster International February Conference 19 - 28 2018/02 [Refereed]
  • Constructing Narratives: The controversy over high school history textbooks
    Derrah, R.
    Journal of Applied Sociology 2018 [Refereed]
  • Hidden casualties: Burma, Siam (Thailand), and the Philippines in World War Two History and Film
    Derrah, R
    Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 2018
  • Learning disabilities: Accessibility and the high school history classroom
    Derrah, R
    Proceedings of the AC 2018 in Prague Conference 2018
  • Chushingura (The Forty-Seven Ronin) in history and film: A guide for secondary level history teachers.
    Derrah, R
    Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 7 477 - 485 2018 [Refereed]
  • Education in the margins: Private academies in the Tokugawa period.
    Derrah, R
    Journal of Applied Sociology 2017
  • Derrah, R.
    Journal of Policy Studies 関西学院大学総合政策学部研究会 51 (51) 1 - 7 1341-996X 2016/03 [Refereed]
  • Teacher license changes and high schools in Japan
    Derrah, R. & Rowe, D.E.
    Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and Education (ALPE-16), 2016 [Refereed]

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