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The fruits of internationalization in Japanese education may be most readily seen at the tertiary level, as shown in the work by Eades, Cooper, and Aspinall in this volume. I suggest that the seeds are planted much earlier, at primary and secondary levels of education, in which students’ expectations of what is international and what constitutes acting internationally, are first exposed.
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Hardy, T. (2016). International Education. In: Mock, J., Kawamura, H., Naganuma, N. (eds) The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 22. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-169-4_11
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