AY2022 Center for Inclusive Leadership（CIL）
Pedagogy Research and Event Subsidy
研究代表者

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Research
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Fostering the inclusive leadership of students and teaching assistants throughmulticultural groupwork

研究メンバー
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ST Professor

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Rikio Kimura

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所属職位

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Tatsuya Hirai
Kimie ShinMiki Cutting
Faezeh Mahichi

Education Development andLearning Support Center
Education Development andLearning Support Center
Education Development andLearning Support CenterCollege of Asia PacificStudies

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2022 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）AY2022 Research Progress (Please state clearly the research progress, results, approx. 400 words.)
Our team spent a lot of time doing the qualitative analysis part of our research in AY2022. We met inperson to manually categorize codes on flip charts. We then met several times in person to revise codesand categories.
We then held a retreat in February 2023 to speed up qualitative analysis and a write-up process. There wecontinued doing qualitative analysis and started writing the following parts of our research paper:-Contexts (i.e., Course descriptions)-Methodology-Qualitative analysis-Quantitative analysis
Furthermore, we discussed about which journal we aimed at submitting our paper and what should bepresented at an event (seminar) for APU faculty/staff. It was a good time to meet in person for a teambuilding purpose as well. Now we felt we have a good team spirit and momentum to write up the paper andsubmit it to the target journal.
Our research journey was a very meaningful and transformative learning process where we learned fromdifficulties associated with e.g., the qualitative analysis software, managing data from multiple courses,appreciated each other’s style and strengths in research and tasks, cared for, respected and encouraged
each other, and accommodated each other’s conditions and schedule. So it was very much a learningjourney towards inclusive leadership, in which inclusion and uniqueness are integral parts. Put differently,
we ourselves have learned what we make students do through group work in our courses to foster theirinclusive leadership! In particular, in person meetings and retreat helped us solidify our team work andre-energize our research towards its completion. As said, our team now gained momentum to write up thepaper and submit it to the journal.
As for Kimura’s individual research project on his courses back in 2017 and 2018, he submitted his paper
entitled, “Exploring Teaching Assistants’ Potential to Facilitate Multicultural Group Work in a Multicultural1

Undergraduate Classroom in Japan,” to the Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education andhas received a minor revision decision with favorable comments from the reviewers. He then revised thepaper and re-submitted it to the journal and is currently waiting for a decision from the journal. He alsopresented the course design part of the paper under the title of “Pedagogical practices for activating
multicultural groupwork in an English-medium major subject classroom” in a seminar of the Center for
Inclusive Leadership at APU. Around 30 faculty/staff registered for the Zoom version as well as recordedversion of the seminar. The Zoom seminar was well received by the audience.

2022 年度中の研究発表（予定を含めてご記入ください）
Research Publication in AY2022(journal articles, conferences, etc.) (Please include future plans as well)
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Others2022 年度 開催イベント（予定を含めてご記入ください）
Events in AY2021(Please include future plans as well)

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Center for Inclusive Leadership
Seminar, APU

Shared pedagogical practices for
activating multicultural groupwork inan English-medium major subject
classroom with APU faculty/staff

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24 March2023