AY2020 Center for Inclusive Leadership（CIL）
Pedagogy Research and Event Subsidy
研究代表者

Research
Representative
研究課題名
Research Title
研究メンバー
Research Group
Members

氏名

所属・職位
Affiliation/Position

APS

Name

FAEZEH MAHICHI

Examining the Potentials and Challenges of Grassroots Activism as a Pedagogy
Framework for Implementing Inclusive Sustainable Development in Societies,
Locally, Regionally and Globally
氏名
所属職位
Name

Affiliation

Position

ALCANTARA LAILANILAYNESAAPU

Professor

PETRUS WILLIAM ROUXAPU

Associate
Professor

HUISINGH DONALD

Institute for a Secure andSustainable Environment, The
University of Tennessee, USA
Academic Advisor of APU

Professor

TAKEAWADAISUKEDASANAYAKE RANAHANSA

Faculty of Humanities,
Professor
University of Kitakyushu, Japan

Institute for Applied
Material Flow Management(IfaS), Trier Universityof Applied Sciences,
Germany
Alumni of APU-IMAT Dual
Master Program, Class2012

Lecturer2020 年度 研究経過（研究経過・到達点を明確にご記入ください。800～1,000 字）AY2020 Research Progress (Please state clearly the research progress, results, approx. 400 words.)
Upon start of the project in August 2020, the research team frequently meet online, communicate byemail, and in person meeting (Prof Takekawa’s visit to Beppu on March 30 and 31, 2021). The result ofour research for August 2020 to end of March 2021 is as follow:
1) Presenting in AP Conference 2020:
Title of our presentation: “A Literature Review of Pedagogies on Inclusive Leadership and Sustainable
Development in Higher Education.”
We presented the result of our preliminary literature review of sustainability and inclusive leadershippedagogies. We have applied a systematic literature review to assure the quality and robustness of ourresearch design and findings by making our search of literature explicit and reproducible (Riebe et al.,2016).
To conduct a comprehensive literature review, we set to include all articles found using a search stringof keywords. Keywords were first developed by the two authors who conducted an initial search ofliterature examining the terms used to refer to sustainability pedagogy, leadership pedagogy, andinclusion. The list of keywords was further refined through discussions with other authors. Only
publications that contribute to the theme of integrating pedagogies on sustainability and inclusive
leadership were included (please see Figure 1). Total of 40 recent publications in sustainability and1

inclusive leadership pedagogies were analyzed and presented in the conference.

Figure 1: Literature review process2) Comprehensive literature review:
Built upon our preliminary literature review presented in APU conference, we have conducted acomprehensive literature review on pedagogies on sustainability and inclusive leadership. To
conduct a critical assessment and synthesis of the literature, all articles were screened foreligibility based on abstract. Two authors who are expert in the field of sustainability reviewed thesustainability pedagogy literature while the other two authors who are expert in the field ofleadership were assigned to review the leadership pedagogy literature. The four authors read theabstract to identify articles that will be retained for further analysis and synthesis. This process
resulted in 30 articles each for the sustainability pedagogy literature and leadership pedagogy
literature. We are in the process of preparing the manuscript to be published in an academic journal(please see our publication plan in Research Plan for AY2021 section).
3) Advising and working closely with the APU student:
Member of research team club have been working with the APU student club, ECOS (EnvironmentalCommunity for Sustainability) and Beppu local community, KEPC (Kamegawa Environmental ProtectionClub). We have participated in the cultural and environmental protection joint events conducted jointly
by KEPC and ECOS to observe the inclusivity amongst APU student bodies and local environmental
activists’ communities.

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2020 年度中の研究発表（予定を含めてご記入ください）
Publication of Research in AY2020 (journal articles, conferences, etc.) (Please include future plans aswell)
発表方法
詳細
Publication
Methods

Details
著書・論文名等
Title of Books or Articles

出版社／掲載誌・巻号等

刊行年月日

Name of Publisher /Name and Volume of Journal

Date ofPublication

著書・論文等Books or Articles

タイトル
Title

学会等
Presentation at anAcademicConference

A Literature Review ofPedagogies on Inclusive
Leadership and Sustainable
Development in Higher
Education

学会名
Name of an Academic Conference

18th Asia Pacific Conference, APU

発表年月日
Date ofPresentation

2020/11/14

その他
Others2020 年度 開催イベント（予定を含めてご記入ください）
Events in AY2020 (Please include future plans as well)

イベント
Event

イベントタイトル

イベント詳細開催年月日

Title of Events

Event Description

Date of Event

Jointly with ECOS, KEPC and some
APU students as volunteer, we haverestored the habitat of fireflies along
Hiya river in Beppu

2021/03/14

Fireflies habitat restoration
activities

2021 年度 研究計画（800～1,000 字）
Research Plan for AY2021 (Please state clearly the research progress, results, approx. 400 words.)

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AY2021Research Plan:1) Paper No.1: Comprehensive literature review on Pedagogies on Inclusive Leadership andSustainability
As explained in Research Progress section, we have conducted a comprehensive literature review
and have reviewed 30 recent articles in sustainability pedagogy and 30 articles inclusive leadership
literature (a total of 60 articles were reviewed). We are in the process of preparing the manuscript
to be published in journal of sustainability (MDPI) with provisional title as;“Towards a pedagogy forthe study of inclusive leadership and sustainable development in Japanese higher education”.

2) Conducting events:
We will conduct the following events jointly with ECOS and KEPC for the public:- Counting and collecting the number of fireflies in along Hiya river, May-July 2021
- Firefly watching events in Hiya river in early July
- Fireflies and sea turtle habitat restoration activities from April 2021-March 2022
- Conducting Star Dome workshop using bamboo by Professor Takekawa in Beppu Global Garden(BGG), the land that has been given to ECOS students by KEPC from 2019 to jointly practiceorganic farming.
3) Development of pedagogical framework for implementing inclusive sustainable development:
To understand the drivers, rewards, challenges, as well as barriers of practicing inclusive
leadership in a setting of great diversity of APU EA and local grassroots environmental activists(GEA), we will develop a pedagogical framework. Through holding lectures, workshops, volunteeringand cultural events and conducting extensive surveys and interviews we will investigate theimpacts of grassroots activism on students from ‘inclusive leadership and sustainability
perspectives’. In particular, we will document and assess the factors that drive inclusivity and its
impacts within and between the two groups by analyzing the various levels of inclusiveness incollaborative conservation activities of GEA and its impact on socio-environmental sustainability.
4) Paper No.2: Pedagogical Framework for Inclusive Sustainable Development
We are planning to publish our developed pedagogical framework as our second manuscript.
5) Apply for Grant in Aid (GIA) AY2022:
Through utilizing finding of our CIL project, the research team is aiming to apply for the Grant inAid AY2022 to deepen our understanding and insights of the potentials of grassroots activism as apedagogy tool for inclusive leadership and an inclusive approach to socio-environmental
sustainability. In case of success receiving the GIA grant, we will utilize the budget to apply ourCIL project findings to integrate IL skills of collaborative conservation into APU’s “normalclassroom” activities to provide students the motivation and commitment to apply them toreal-world situations in their home countries.
6) Dissemination of event and research outputs
In addition to submitting our research outputs for journal publication, we plan to disseminate ourresearch output through conference presentations, including AP conference, and seminars. We alsoplan to develop our research project’s website through which we can make our event andresearch outputs available and accessible to everyone.
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Table 1. AY2021 Research Timeline
DATES
PLANTS
Draft
Paper (No. 1)
1 2021/4/30
Provisional Title:“Towards a pedagogy for the study of inclusive
leadership and sustainable development in Japanesehigher education”.
2

April 2021-March 2022

3

April - November 2021

456October 2021

November 2021
December 2021 - March2022

Conducting events jointly with ECOS and KEPC
- Fireflies and sea turtle habitat restoration activities- Firefly watching events
Preparation for draft article No.2 by expanding
literature review (based on article 1) by adding theJapanese articles & studies and development ofpedagogical framework for implementing inclusive
sustainable development

Apply for Grant in Aid AY2022
Present ongoing findings at AP 2021
Paper (No. 2)
Provisional Title: “Towards a pedagogy for Inclusive
Leadership and Sustainable Development in JapaneseHigher Education: Establishing a framework forregeneration”

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