Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University
In 2014 winter vocation, I participated in the field study conducted by Professor Keiichi Ogawa in Washington DC, USA. This field study contains various activities, including visits to international organizations including World Bank, FHI 360, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, joining seminars given by education specialists, visit to university George Washington University, as well […]
Professor Keiichi Ogawa was invited by Professor Louis Comfort, Director of Center for Disaster Management at the University of Pittsburgh to participate in an international workshop on “Building Community Resilience to Global Hazards: A Sociotechnical Approach”held on April 4-5, 2014. In this workshop, Professor Ogawa shared the experience of CAMPUS Asia Project that highlights what […]
I participated in the overseas training in Toronto and Washington, D.C. for two weeks from March 9 to 22, 2014. The overall purpose for attending the training is to further my dissertation research project through various types of activities: attending an international conference and conducting interview with front-line experts. During the first half of the […]
During the spring vacation, I got the opportunity to conduct internship in Prof. Ogawa’s field study with seminar students. Prof. Ogawa kindly made several appointments with educational related specialists in different international organizations, which based on our research interests.Dr. Shojo who is an alumni in Ogawa seminar currently an education specialist working at the World […]
From March 9th to 22th in 2014, I took part in a field study at Toronto in Canada and Washington D.C. in the United States. The field study aims at investigating about risk management learning from international organizations. In Toronto, I attended the 58th Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) from March 10th to 15th […]
Dr. Ki-Seok (Korbil) Kim, Emeritus Professor at Seoul National University, has arrived in Kobe, Japan on April 1, 2014 and will stay here until June 30, 2014. As an Invited Professor, he conducts his research on “Higher Education in South Korea” in GSICS at Kobe University. Professor Kim said, “I just came back HOME. It […]
The above captioned party was held on Wednesday 26th March 2014 in a BBQ restaurant near Kobe University, to celebrate with thirteen new graduates who studied under Professor Ogawa’s seminar. Specifically, two students received doctoral degrees and 11 received master’s Degrees. More than twenty Ogawa seminar’s students, including new graduates participated in this dinner. During […]
The two-week internship at FHI360 in Washington, D.C. was short but fulfilling. As I look back on it, my mind is filled with uplifting memories. I made the right decision to have insisted on conducting this internship despite the fact that the original six-week plan was shortened to a limited two-week schedule. FHI 360 is […]
I conducted Advanced Overseas Research at the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) in the University of Pittsburgh for about three and a half months from August 26 to December 14, 2013. During this period, I served as a visiting student scholar and was mainly furthering my dissertation research project on “A Cost-Effective Analysis […]
I was fortunate having an excellent opportunity to work as an intern in the Global Learning Group at an international NGO in Washington DC, FHI360, for six weeks from the middle of October to the end of November, 2013. Why I participated the internship program was because 1) I am interested in how NGOs take […]
