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“Place” figures largely into perspective and views of the world. As a United States citizen working abroad in a public university in Japan, I am both honored and baffled at the newfound opportunity that I have to reinvent myself as a scholar to some degree in a developed nation that is re-inventing its educational system.
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Agnello, M.F. (2017). “We have All been here Before”. In: Araki, N. (eds) Diversity in Japanese Education. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-059-2_7
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