David Blake Willis

My research and writing concerns human development as it relates to education over the lifespan in transnational contexts, Creoles and the creolization of cultures, comparative education, diaspora, and citizenship. Frontiers and borderlands are where I do my work in Japan, South India, and North America. I also have a deep interest in organizations, systems, and their cultures, particularly on a global scale, as well as transformative adult education and issues of aging, social justice, and diversity. My published work includes "Reimagining Japanese Education: Borders, Transfers, Circulations and the Comparative" (Symposium, 2011); "Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity" (Routledge, 2009), a book that Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu and I did together, while "Japanese Education in Transition 2001: Radical Perspectives on Cultural and Political Transformation" with Satoshi Yamamura (Adelaide: Shannon) was published in 2002 and can be found online by searching the title. Other books listed on this site have chapters I have authored, usually collaboratively. A number of other books are in the works on borders and border crossings, cultural and language immersion, and cultural identity. I have many journal articles and book chapters on comparative educational systems, especially administration, as well as educational ethnographies, and recently, on social and cultural entrepreneurship.