Marie Højlund Roesgaard

Marie Højlund Roesgaard

MA, PhD, Global Visiting Professor Keio University

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0611-8021

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    2300 København S

Personal profile

Current research

The Japanese system of education, especially topics relating to reform, globalization, global citizenship, sustainable development goals (SDG) and moral education (dōtoku kyōiku in Japanese). In my monograph on moral education I analyze teaching material as well as field cases I have collected to show the practice of teaching moral education and the contents and I relate this to government policies and identity politics.  Previously I have also done research on private shadow education, the juku, which offer a variety of services ranging from simple help with homework to stringent preparation for entrance examinations. They were analyzed for their impact in relation to the Japanese legal provisions stipulating equal access to receiving education, for their relations to regular schools and their self-perceived role.

I also work with Japanese monsters (yôkai) and the role they play in comtemporary Japan as well as historically. On a more general level, I focus on topics concerning the perception of ‘the other, social organization and the concept of ‘order’ on an individual level as well as the societal level.

Primary fields of research

Japans moderne samfund generelt, politik, uddannelse og populærkultur i særdeleshed.

CV

Educational Background

2023 -   Global Visiting Professor, Keio University, graduate school of System Design Management (Japan). 

2008-2009           Research Management Course, led by Søren Barlebo Rasmussen, Copenhagen Business School.

1994                    Ph.D degree, East Asian Institute, University of Aarhus, dissertation title: “Rhetoric in Japanese Education Reform - An Analysis of the 1980s.”

1989                    MA Degree, University of Aarhus, East Asian Institute, Japanese Section.

1989, major: Japanese, 1989, minor: Chinese, 1984, minor: English.     

 

Professional Positions

 1. Associate professor, Department of Asian studies, University of Copenhagen, from September 1998.

2. Assistant professor, Department of Asian studies, University of Copenhagen, April 1995 - April 1998.

3. External associate professor, Copenhagen Business College, September 1994 - May 1995.

4. Assistant professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen. August 1993 - January 1994. 

5. Assistant professor, East Asian Institute, University of Aarhus. August 1990 - January 1991.

 

Administrative Experience

 1. Head of the steering committee for the Asian Dynamics Initiative, a cooperative research and teaching initiative between the faculty of Social sciences and the Faculty of the Humanities, from March 2008 till June 2017 (see www.asiandynamics.ku.dk).

2. Deputy Head of Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS), 2007 – 2010.

3. Head of the coordination committee of the Boards of Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, 2004-2006.

4. Head of the Board of Studies, Department of Asian Studies, from February 2000 – August 2002 and from May 2003 – November 2005.

5. Member of board of the department and board of studies, Department of Asian Studies 1999 - 2005.

6. Danish Representative at Asia-Europe Young Leaders Symposium under ASEM in Miyazaki 1997 and Baden 1998. Chaired work shop on work and education in Baden.

7. Member of the board of Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies (NAJAKS), 1995-2010. Organizer of NAJAKS conference in Copenhagen 2007.

 

Editorial Activities

 Member of editorial board, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, editor of Japan issue published in 2001.

Overseas Editor of Journal, Social Sciences in Heilongjiang, Harbin, China.

Overseas Editor of Journal, Study and Exploration, Harbin, China.

 

 

Teaching

I mainly teach topics concerning Japanese contemporary society and culture, but also theoretical courses and Japanese language.

I supervise essays and theses on contemporary society and popular and modern culture.

Short presentation

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External positions

Global Visiting Professor, Keio University

1 Aug 2023 → …

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Japanese education
  • Moral education
  • Global Citizenship
  • Japanese popular culture
  • Japanese society
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