{"id":5070,"date":"2021-11-12T05:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2022-07-11T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:49:35","slug":"ait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/ait\/","title":{"rendered":"IGS International Education Program with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AIT Workshop <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AIT Workshop is an international education program offered by the IGS in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). In December 2004, Ochanomizu University and AIT signed an inter-university academic exchange agreement in the field of gender and development. Following this agreement, the AIT Workshop was developed and conducted by IGS and the School of Environment and Resource Development of AIT.<\/p>\n<p>The main participants in this workshop are master\u2019s students from Ochanomizu University and master\u2019s and doctoral students from AIT. This program provides students the chance to participate in international exchanges in Thailand and Japan, which is a unique experience for those who wish to work for NGOs, international organizations, and offices to promote gender equality or broaden their perspectives as researchers and practitioners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dds.ait.ac.th\/\">Click here for the website of Gender and Development Studies, AIT<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Workshop Aims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This workshop provides participants the opportunity to learn to analyze issues of development and gender and also basic methods of conducting field research in a foreign country. It constitutes an excellent opportunity for practical training in interviewing and presentation in English. The content of the workshop and the sites to visit are provided to match the participants\u2019 research interests. The workshop program consists of learning fieldwork, setting up a study theme for the year, studying at AIT, conducting field research, creating presentations in English, writing reports, assisting in the fieldwork of AIT students in Japan, and participating in IGS seminars and symposia. The workshop will be conducted over one week.<\/p>\n<p>IGS will provide subsidies for travel expenses (air tickets and accommodation).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Course Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AIT Workshop requires having taken Coursework on Methodology: Fieldwork (<em>kenky<\/em><em>\u016b h<\/em><em>\u014dh<\/em><em>\u014d ron k<\/em><em>\u014dsu w<\/em><em>\u0101ku<\/em>) in the spring semester and Development Studies from Global and Gender Perspectives (<em>kokusai shakai jend<\/em><em>\u0101 ron<\/em>) in the fall semester.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Study Themes from Past Years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2001 Gender and development<br \/>\n2002 Gender, work, and globalization<br \/>\n2003 Women, globalization, and home-based work<br \/>\n2004 Female migrant workers\u2019 rights in Thailand<br \/>\n2005 Gender and development in Thailand: Labor rights and violence against women<br \/>\n2006 [no workshop]\u3000<br \/>\n2007 Gender, rights, and empowerment<br \/>\n2008 Thailand\u2013Japan interactive research actions using gender perspectives<br \/>\n2009 Gender and policy: Thailand\u2013Japan interactive analysis<br \/>\n2010 Gender and social change: Comparative analysis of Thailand and Japan<br \/>\n2011 Gender and disaster [symposium held in Japan]\u3000<br \/>\n2012 Sexuality<br \/>\n2013 Global justice, women\u2019s health, and prostitution<br \/>\n2014 1) Sexuality 2) Gender and Poverty 3) Education and Empowerment<br \/>\n2015 Labor, sexuality, and empowerment<br \/>\n2016 Labor and association from gender perspective<br \/>\n2017 Sexual minorities and migrant workers from gender perspectives<br \/>\n2018 Power and sexuality from a gender perspective<br \/>\n2019 Gender and empowerment in urban spaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIT Workshop The AIT Workshop is an international education program offered by the IGS in collaboration with t [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}