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Mid-Atlantic Region Japan in the Schools (MARJiS)

MARJiS is ICTE's flagship program. Established in 1985, MARJiS, through its research partnerships, leadership programs, publications and professional development initiatives, has prepared more than 200 regional and national leaders in the U.S and Japan to integrate transcultural dimensions into pre-college education programs using Japan and the U.S. as cases.

Leadership programs have prepared participants on both sides of the Pacific to transform instructional materials by revealing the ways in which cultural images have shaped understanding under conditions of conflict, reconciliation, and peace. Participants have integrated minority perspectives into instructional materials, professional development initiatives, and curriculum frameworks. They have compared the roles of teachers as transcultural mediators and constructed new approaches to conflict resolution and peace education.For detailed accounts please see the links below:

• MARJiS/Japan Elementary School Educational Exchange Network
• Mimi Kuriyama Fellowship
• Embassy Workshops
• Monbusho Young Teachers Program
• Resource Center & Discovery Boxes

Japanese School children reach out from across the Pacific

MARJiS News & Events index:

• MARJiS Workshop: "Re-inventing Music: Tradition and Change" (Oct 28, 2005)
• MARJiS Workshop: "Re-Inventing Performance: Tradition and Change in Bunraku Puppetry"(Oct 29, 2005)
• Barbara Finkelstein awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rossette (June 28, 2004)

Leadership

Barbara Finkelstein, Professor and Founding Director of ICTE, and faculty advisor to the Mid-Atlantic Region Japan in the Schools (MARJiS) program and the Oral History in Education Institute (OHI), has received an array of prestigious awards and fellowships for work that examines historical and transcultural dimensions of education policies, practices, and processes as they have impinged on the lives of children, youth, minority and immigrant groups, and shaped the quality of education opportunity available to them. (Curriculum Vita)

ICTE's research partner Professor Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, is Associate Professor of Education, University of Tokyo, and comparative education specialist in the University of Tokyo Center for Clinical Research on School Development. She is international program leader of the Center for Research on Basic Scholastic Competence, and a prolific scholar of socialization policies and practices in Japan and the U.S.

Lary MacDonald is the Associate Director for the Mid-Atlantic Region Japan in the Schools (MARJiS) Program at ICTE. He is a graduate of the Master’s Program at the George Washington University School of Education and Human Development with a specialization in International Education. His undergraduate work was conducted at the University of North Texas in Jazz Studies and Music Education. He has worked in Japan as an educator and educational administrator for six years and speaks Japanese. Lary is currently working towards his Ph.D. in International and Comparative Education in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership.