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Richard Derrah

Richard Derrah
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Research field  (1): Sociology of education
Research keywords  (3): Applied Linguistics ,  Japanese History ,  Teacher Licensing
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (3):
  • 2025 - 2028 Investigating junior high school English teachers' beliefs towards CLT and English as the medium of instruction
  • 2022 - 2025 Cultural Literacy and Teacher Training in Thailand and Japan
  • 2022 - 2025 Researching elementary school English teacher efficacy
Papers (12):
  • Richard H. Derrah, Nuntiya Doungphummes, Theeraphong Boonrugsa, Mitsuko Ono. Navigating between cultures: foreign teachers within Thai and Japanese schools. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 2024. 1-15
  • Richard H. Derrah. Critical realism, ethnography and translations: an investigation into a Japanese school. Qualitative Research Journal. 2024. 24. 2. 159-168
  • Richard H. Derrah, Phillip M. Clark, Kevin Ballou. Shifting Fields: Japanese University Students’ Habitus During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Refection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change. 2022. 87-102
  • Clark, P, Derrah, R. Nihonjinron and education in Japan. Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Sciences and Education (ICESS). 2019. 17-22
  • Derrah, R. Motivation in the Japanese university language classroom. Proceedings of the Universal Academic Cluster International February Conference. 2018. 19-28
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Education (4):
  • 2008 - 2017 Temple University Graduate School of Education Ph.D in Education
  • 2002 - 2004 Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences M.A. in East Asian Studies
  • 2000 - 2002 Boston College M.Ed.
  • 1993 - 1996 Bridgewater State University B.A. History
Professional career (3):
  • PhD Education (Temple University)
  • Masters of Arts (Harvard University)
  • Masters of Education (Boston College)
Association Membership(s) (3):
Japan Association for Language Teaching ,  Comparative and International Educational Society ,  Association of Asian Studies
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