Engaging with the More-Than-Human and Decolonial Turns in the Land of Shinto Cosmologies: “Negative” Comparative Education in Practice

作     者：Keita Takayama 

作者机构：Kyoto University 

出 版 物：《ECNU Review of Education》 (华东师大教育评论（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第3卷第1期

页      面：46-65页

学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 0401[教育学-教育学] 07[理学] 0701[理学-数学] 

基　　金：The author(s) received no financial support for the research  authorship  and/or publication of this article. 

主　　题：Comparative education decolonial ecofeminism negative education Shinto 

摘      要：Purpose:In this explorative,self-reflective article,I attempt to extend the methodological discussion of a“negativeapproach to comparative education that I have recently articulated elsewhere.Here,I demonstrate how I attempted to put in practice negative comparative education by drawing on my experience at the Shanghai workshop,Beyond the Western Horizon in Educational Research,organized by Iveta Silova,Jeremy Rappleye,and Yun You at the East China Normal University.Design/Approach/Methods:I conceive my participation in the Shanghai workshop as a disruptive moment wherein my previous forms of knowing and being were challenged.More specifically,I discuss how my attempt to situate the ecofeminist and decolonial literature,the two of the three main bodies of literature introduced through the workshop,within the context of Japanese education triggered me to reconsider the role of Shinto in Japanese education and question my own firm identification with the liberal–left politics within Japan.Findings:I reflect upon how the initial sense of discomfort and the remaining sense of ambivalence took me on a journey of unlearning and relearning about the limits of my knowing,my own political subjectivities,and the place of Shinto cosmologies in Japanese education.Originality/Value:I conclude the discussion with a few provisional thoughts that point us to an approach to comparative education that makes our research“a matter of concernacross multiple linguistically bounded,national and regional scholarly communities.