Center for General Education
Center for General Education Teaching Staff
- Professor
- OGAWA Kazuhisa
- Research : Evaluation of an educational program on children's hazard perception. Methods of providing elderly drivers with feedback for self-reflection. Negative emotions and self-control examined according to the driver's age.
- Professor
- KATAYAMA Fumio
- Research : My major field of study is American political thought, especially Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the U.S.A.. He was a political thinker and social activist. Examining his emphasis on citizen's virtue is important to begin to understand the American ethos.
- Professor
- KATO Junichi
- Research :Under Construction.
- Professor
- SUZUKI Jun
- Research : It is often said that Victorian literature contributed much to imperialism. However, as Edward Said argues, critics should also focus on the hidden, resistant voices of the natives. Thus, I am currently reconsidering the complicit relationship from a postcolonial perspective.
- Professor
- TAKANO Atsushi
- Research : I am interested in how elite athletes make decisions during a match. Also, I want to investigate the differences in brain activity between elites and normal athletes.
- Professor
- TAKAHASHI Shutaro
- Research : Study of modern Japanese literature and culture, especially early Showa era/ Study of Dazai Osamu' literature.
- Professor
- TAKAHASHI Tetsunori
- Research : My research aims at analyzing the rhetorical aspects of the American Novel and Literary Criticism in the 20th century, especially focusing on aesthetical and theoretical possibilities and limits of irony in the major works from Modernism to Postmodernism, from the New Criticism to the New Historicism.
- Associate Professor
- OKI Yoko
- Research :I study modern Japanese literature, especially Japanese children's literature. My main research interests are the history of Japanese children's literature, magazine studies, and the relationship between children's literature and contemporary literature.
- Associate Professor
- COOKE Simon Daniel
- Research : The focus of my research is to examine ways in which students can become more effective autonomous learners. Rather than relying solely on classroombased teacher-led instruction, autonomous learning promotes the development of a collaborative classroom environment and the discovery of learning methods that can help students to learn for themselves.
- Associate Professor
- NAKAJIMA Natsuko
- Research : The major field of my study is college curriculum. Japanese policy on college curriculum has been deregulated its national standards, which lead universities to organize their own curriculum. Therefore, the purpose of my study is to find out new principles and frameworks for the curriculum in the new era.
- Associate Professor
- HONDA Haruhiko
- Research :
◦ My recent research is to clarify the effect of physical activity of elderly people on physical and mental health. I have examined this theme through an intervention program.
◦ Another area of my research is to enhance the QOL of people with disabilities through sports and exercise.
- Lecture
- KAWACHI Satoko
- Research :Research on the spread and acceptance of media in the modern Japanese community. Mainly, we consider popular media such as magazines from the standpoint of literary research.
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