Jun Yamana

Jun Yamana is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He has taught numerous courses on the Philosophy of Education. His recent special area of interest and research is “Memory Pedagogy”, which analyzes educational theories and practices from the perspective of cultural memory (collective memory) and commemoration developed in the field of Memory Studies. He has collaborated with German educational researchers on various philosophical and historical research projects since he studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the 1990s. He has published widely in Japanese and in German.

Jun Yamana’s project page at the University of Tokyo III: The Concept of Memory Pedagogy and Catastrophes

 

Recent Publications:

Yamana, J. (2020), Catastrophe, commemoration and education: On the concept of memory pedagogy, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 52, Issue 13, pp.1375-1387. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1773795

Yamana, J. (2020), Crossover between Memory Pedagogy and Research on History of Pedagogical Ideas on Catastrophes, Kato, M. (eds.), Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Voices from Japan (Educational Philosophy and Theory),  pp.11-12. To link to this article:https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1802819

Yamana, J. (2019), Über-Setzung des kommunikativen und kulturellen Gedächtnisses: Zur Interpretation des pädagogischen Projektes „Gemälde der Atombombe“ in Hiroshima, Engel,N./Köngeter,S. (Hrsg.), Übersetzung: Über die Möglichkeit, Pädagogik anders zu denken, Springer Verlag, S.99-114

Yamana, J. (2017), Hiroshima als architektonischer Raum der Erinnerung: Zur Problematik der Pädagogisierung eines geschichtlichen Ortes, Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung, Vol. 22, S. 61 – 79

Yamana, J./Yano, S. (eds.) (2017), Can Memory of Catastrophes Be Passed on to Others? Possibility and Border of Education, Keiso Shobo: Tokyo (in Japanese)

Yamana, J. (2015), Educational Ideas of Cities and Architectures, Keiso Shobo: Tokyo (in Japanese)

Jun Yamana visited the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform in December 2016 and gave a talk on “The State of Memory Studies in Japan.”