報告：ISANA2011・第22回ISANA年次大会 全体報告（於 オーストラリア、タスマニア州ホバート市）
全体報告
What is ISANA? Who is ISANA?
Very few people in Japan know about the ISANA organization which represents international education professionals in Australia and New Zealand. ISANA focuses on the “front line” and day-to-day challenges of international educators in the area of student services, advocacy, teaching, and policy development. Every year the ISANA Conference is held in November-December, alternating between Australia and New Zealand. This year there were about 250 people who attended the conference in Hobart, Tasmania. Tasmania is an island off the south coast of Australia, which was once a penal colony for Britain. Today Hobart is a beautiful tourism destination full of nature and green. Due to Tasmania’s geographic location being a bit off the main track, this year’s conference had less attendees than if the conference were held on the mainland of Australia. Last year I heard there were over 400 attendees in Melbourne.
I usually attend NAFSA, EAIE and APAIE, but what I really enjoyed about the ISANA Conference was first its size, as since it was a small conference, people know one another and overall were very friendly. JAFSA and ISANA have a good relationship, and each year JAFSA sends a delegate to ISANA to represent JAFSA and Japan. The other part that I liked about this conference was that these were very serious international educators, who really were working on the front lines of their universities taking care of international students. The people who attend ISANA were usually not the ones who would attend NAFSA or EAIE, they were the “worker bees” who did the actual front lines work for the incoming international students and the outbound Australian/New Zealand students. It was nice to be among such type of caring, hands-on people, and I could see they were at the conference to seriously learn and participate, their focus wasn’t on recruitment and PR, but mainly on learning how to improve the international student support services on their campuses.
This year I was the only person from a Japanese university. It was very interesting to be the only one from Japan and I had a lot of questions about the Tohoku region disaster. This past November, I personally went to see the disaster-stricken area in Tohoku for myself so I could try to understand and make some sense of the unimaginable tragedy that terribly affected over 450 kilometers of coastline. I also wanted to listen and feel the hearts of the Tohoku people. The trip was one of the most emotionally powerful that I have ever taken, and enabled me to tell the people at the conference an honest update from my own experience.
My presentation was about how Osaka Gakuin University engages and challenges international students with unique types of educational and experiential learning such as “real” western-based internships, service learning, and blended classes/teaching/teams. Our goal at OGU is to create stimulating, interactive learning experiences for international students in addition to the regular Japanese language and subject-based courses in English. But the only way for these types of experiential programs to be successful and sustainable is through a “Win-Win” arrangement. At Osaka Gakuin, we ask only two questions, first, “What is best for students?” And second, “How do we set up a “Win-win” situation for all parties involved?”
報告者：Mike Matsuno （大阪学院大学）
マイク・マツノ氏（筆者）
発表資料（PDF）はこちらからご覧いただけます。
大会概要
ISANA2011・第22回ISANA年次大会
大会日時：2011年11月29日（火）～12月2日（金）
場所：Wrest Point Conference Centre、オーストラリア・ホバート市 （タスマニア）
JAFSAセッション日時：2011年11月30日（水）（現地時間）
発表者：マイク・マツノ (大阪学院大学 国際交流センター）
発表タイトル：“New Ways of Engaging International Students”
参加人数：約40名
