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Internationalization and Faculty Well-Being in Liberal Arts Colleges: An Often Neglected Issue in East Asia

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In this chapter, we discuss the issues of faculty well-being in higher education and in particular, in the liberal arts colleges of East Asia. In so doing, we draw on the extant psychosocial models of well-being. We then examine and discuss the findings of a recent faculty survey conducted in Japanese colleges whose goal was to tap into faculty members’ perceptions of their institutions’ policies and their own teaching and research regarding internationalization and liberal arts education. In the final section of the chapter, we make some recommendations for policies that will promote faculty well-being in East Asian liberal arts colleges.

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    The authors of this chapter including other research team members Mikiko Nishimura, Insung Jung and Yasuo Shimizu were responsible for designing and carrying out the online survey.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the bibliographic assistance of Rina Ikebe for the present chapter.

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  1. International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

    Toshiaki Sasao & Naoki Hatta

  2. University of Opole, Opole, Poland

    Toshiaki Sasao

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  1. International Christian University, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Insung Jung

  2. International Christian University, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Mikiko Nishimura

  3. International Christian University, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Toshiaki Sasao

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Sasao, T., Hatta, N. (2016). Internationalization and Faculty Well-Being in Liberal Arts Colleges: An Often Neglected Issue in East Asia. In: Jung, I., Nishimura, M., Sasao, T. (eds) Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0513-8_14

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