Papers - KIRK Stanley Arthur
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The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Exiles in Postwar Japan
Stanley KIRK
言語と文化 25 101 - 120 2021.3
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This paper is a life history of the John and May Izumi family who were uprooted from their homes and livelihoods in Vancouver and incarcerated in various internment camps before being deported to Japan. First is summarizes their lives in Canada before deportation, then focuses on their struggles to live as Japanese Canadians in postwar Japan. Finally it discusses how their life history corroborates and compares with the life histories of other Japanese Canadian exiles.
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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba
Stanley KIRK
A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba 24 ( 24 ) 3 - 36 2020.3
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Publisher：The Journal for the Institute of Language and Culture
The life history of Tak Matsuba, a Japanese Canadian who was was exiled to Japan at the end of World War II. It describes his life in Canada before exile, then focuses on his life following his arrival in Japan, particularly his employment with the American Occupation Forces, his subsequent career as an international businessman, his role on founding and leading a group of Japanese Canadian exiles in the Kansai area, his sense of cultural and national identity. Finally it discusses how his life history compares with and corroborates the recollections of other Japanese Canadian exiles and how it adds to our knowledge of this aspect of Japanese Canadian history.
DOI： 10.14990/00003601
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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Kazuko Makihara
Stanley Kirk
The Journal fo the Institute for Language and Culture, Konan University ( 23 ) 3 - 20 2019.3
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A Japanese Canadian Child-Exile: the Life History of Basil Izumi
Journal of the Institute of Language and Culture ( 20 ) 1 - 33 2018.4
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Life Histories of Japanese Canadian 'Deportees': A Father and Son Case Study
Stanley KIRK
言語と文化 The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture ( 21 ) 2017.3
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The Ambivalence of Izanami with Reference to Gaia
Stanley KIRK
言語と文化 The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture ( 20 ) 2016.3
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Motivation of Japanese Students Volunteering as Tutors for Foreign Resident Children
Stanley KIRK
言語と文化 Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture ( １８ ) 2014.3
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The Ambivalent Nature of Gaia and the Human Condition in the Poems of Hesiod
Stan Kirk
言語と文化： The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture 2012.3
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Explores the narrative strategies used by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod to develop the dual nature (nurturer and destroyer) of the Greek earth goddess Gaia, and how this is related to the human condition. Comparative references are made to goddesses from other traditions, including the Japanese goddess Izanami.
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Application of Self-Determination Theory to a Second Language Writing Class
Stan Kirk
言語と文化：The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture 2011.3
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Describes an action-research project in which Self-Determination Theory is applied to a Second Language Writing Class. Specifically,it examines to what degree basic SDT concepts are supported by the results of the project, and also to what degree the various aspects of the course enhanced or hindered student motivation as described by SDT.
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Self-Determination Theory: An Overview
Stan Kirk
言語と文化：The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture 2010.3
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Authorship：Lead author
Surveys the historical development and main tenets of the theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory (SDT)and its application to general education, as well as its strategies for fostering student motivation. Previous attemtps to apply SDT to Second Language Learning are also described.
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Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation in a Second Language Writing Class: the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory
Stan Kirk
unpublished MA thesis, University of Leicester 2010.2
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