“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

	Applied Social System Institute of Asia, Nagoya University
Research Fields	My specialties are educational sociology and comparative international education. I have conducted my field research on educational policy and practice in African countries and have also studied Japanese assistance policies in Africa. I wrote my PhD thesis on colonial education in British West Africa and have long been involved in Ghana. However, for the last 10 or so years, I have researched civil education and human resources development for businesses and industries in Ethiopia. Currently, what I am interested in the most is how the youth acquire their knowledge and skills in various places, including apprentice systems and school education systems.
Main Works	Yamada, Shoko (2016)(Ed). Post-Education-For-All and Sustainable Development Paradigm: Structural change and diversifying actors and norms. London: Emerald Publishing. pp. 392. Yamada, Shoko (2014). “Domesticating Democracy? Civic and Ethical Education textbooks in Secondary Schools in the democratization Period of Ethiopia” in Williams, James H. (ed). (Re)Building Memory: School Textbooks, Identity, and the Pedagogies and Politics of Imagining Community. pp. 35-59. Sense Publishing. Yamada, Shoko (2009). “‘Traditions’ and Cultural Production: Character Training at the Achimota School in Colonial Ghana”. History of Education. Vol. 38, No.1, pp. 29-59. Taylor and Francis. Yamada, Shoko (2009). “Who is the true bearer? The visible and hidden private cost of senior secondary education and equity in Ghana.” Africa Today, Vol. 55, No. 3. pp. 63-82. Indiana University Press. Yamada, Shoko (2008). “Educational Borrowing as Negotiation: Reexamining the influence of American black industrial education model on British colonial education in Africa.” Comparative Education Vol.44, No 1, pp. 21-37. Taylor and Francis. Yamada, Shoko (2007). “Making Sense of the EFA from a National Context – Its Implementation, And Impact on Households In Ethiopia –” in Baker, David P. and Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds), Education for All: Global promises, national challenges. pp. 453-491. Elsevier Science Ltd.

Shoko Yamada