Report of KU-UNIVIE Joint Grant Program
Section 1
Project title:
Project coordinator (KU)
Name
Position
Faculty, department
Project coordinator (UNIVIE)
Name
Position
Faculty, department
Period of project

An intersectional look at Austrian and Japanese inclusive educational
discourses in the current era of poly-crises and flight
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Manalo
Professor of Educational Psychology
Graduate School of Education
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Michelle Proyer
Center for Teacher Education

From: 01.07.2023
To: 31.03.2024
KU: UNIVIE: Other:

Project location[KU] Faculty members: 4
Students: 4[UNIVIE] Faculty members: 10Students:
Other institutions:

Others: 250
Others: 10

For events*1(e.g. workshops,seminars, symposia) *Please attach a participant list if possible. (the list will NOT beApprox.
publicized)
number ofparticipants For other exchange [KU] Faculty members: 2
Students: 2
Others: 4
activities (such as[UNIVIE] Faculty members: 6
Students:
4
Others: 4
researcher visits
Other institutions: Several teachers from schools visited and school
and online
administers.
meetings) *2
If applicable: URL at whichhttps://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/inklusiveproject outcomes can be viewed
paedagogik/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/intersections-of(e.g. workshop
disability-and-migration-in-and-between-austria-and-japan-in-thenotifications/programs/reports,
current-era-of-instability-and-flight/
evidence of academic papers
published or otherwise madeavailable, etc.)
Please submit digital files (such as JPEG or GIF files) of the photographs
used in your report as attachments. The size of each image should be
If available: Photographs withapprox. 4MB, so that it can be used for printed materials. Please ensure
captions
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*1*2

Please enter the number of participants for each event.
Please count each individual participant once only, even if they participate multiple times.

Section 2
Summary of the project (approx. 200 words)
This project proposed explorative research activities in Japan and Austria to map the knowledge,
practices, and policies of inclusive education. We intended to analyze the educational discourses (on anacademic but also policy level) and find out the extent to which an intersectional approach is being
followed in the process of tackling the education of people with various forms of what are usuallyreferred to as “disabilities”.
This project initiated a new cooperation between the Center for Teacher Education of the University ofVienna and the Graduate School of Education of Kyoto University. The Austrian context, where anintersectional approach stays limited to the intersection of disability, migration and binary gender, andthe Japanese context, where an intersectional approach is relatively invisible in the educational context
were compared to identify how both contexts can mutually benefit from learning from each other andadd to comparative approaches in intersectional research. This project was the first cooperation between
these two departments (apart from applications for individual scholarships) where graduate students
were also part of the project activities and could benefit from international research cooperation.