Sunday, December 22, 2013

International Education Development Forum (IEDF) 2013

The International Education Development Forum (IEDF) was held in Hiroshima University on December 14th-15th. More than 70 researchers from different universities, Waseda University, Nagaya University, Kobe University, Seoul National University, Ewha Woman's University, and University of Hong Kong participated in this forum. Every program was organized by students in Hiroshima University. We had a great time for sharing our research and promoting relationship between young researchers. Hope that we meet again anywhere!


Kyoko Taniguchi

Friday, September 27, 2013

Internship in IEA

I have been doing an internship in International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Hamburg, Germany since the end of July. Do you know what IEA studies are? Have you ever heard PIRLS or TIMSS? IEA has been conducting international comparative studies of school achievement since 1958. Please visit the following website. http://www.iea.nl/home.html  There are a lot of information about the workshop and publications. You can learn a lot!


Message from a bit cold weather in Hamburg, Germany.

Kyoko Taniguchi

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Take a break!: our professor

Our professor likes a red wine! We drunk it almost every night in Argentina. Actually, it was really really nice!

The XV Comparative Education World Congress

We, Prof. Hirakawa, PhD student Bunnchay and Taniguchi, attended the XV Comparative Education World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We presented the following two studies.



Bunnchay Ang, No Fata, Soeung Sopha, and Yukiko Hirakawa,
"Causes of Primary School Dropouts in Rural Cambodia: Multilevel Survival Analysis"

Kyoko Taniguchi and Yukiko Hirakawa,
"Dynamics of Community Participation, Student Achievement, and School Management: A Case of Primary Schools in Nkhta Bay District in Malawi"

After our presentation, we had an efficient discussion with other researchers.
We need to publish these contents of the presentation on journal soon!


We had a wonderful dinner on the date of the presentation!
Here, people eat a large amount of meat and potato! We were surprised the food culture of Argentina.




 
Kyoko Taniguchi

Monday, April 15, 2013

HAPPY KHMER NEW YEAR!
カンボジア暦、謹賀新年!

It was the New Year festival in ancient calendar of Khmer people. What an interesting cultural evening organized by Cambodian students at Hiroshima University... Delicious food, amazing performances, games, and more. We had a lot of dancing.
Who won at "Musical Chairs"?, of course one of Hirakawa's lab students :D :D
4月14日(日曜日)に、広島大学会館にて、カンボジア旧暦でのお正月をお祝いする、カンボジアの新年祝賀イベントが行われました。IDECからも多くのカンボジアの留学生が参加し、文化紹介をしてくれました!
おいしい料理や素晴らしいパフォーマンス、ゲームなど、本当に素晴らしい催し物ばかりで、ホストであるカンボジア人と参加者みなが一体となって楽しい時間を過ごしました。
このお祭りの中で椅子取りゲームの出し物もありました。
ここで問題です、誰が優勝したと思いますか?
答えは、私たち平川研の学生でした!さすが平川研究室です。

本当に素晴らしいイベントでした!
ホストのカンボジアのみなさん、素敵な時間をありがとうございました!
BEAUTIFULLY DONE!!






Tuesday, April 9, 2013

WELCOME PARTY 2013-I 平川研歓迎会

We study hard, but also have fun... :)
先日、新しく来た学生二人のウェルカム・パーティを、いきつけの大福で行いました
勉強だけでなく、楽しみも忘れない、それが平川研究室です


This time we said "Welcome" to the new students...We are sure you are going to do your best and succeed.
新入生のお二人、研究室にようこそ、今後一緒に頑張っていきましょう^^ 

Monday, April 8, 2013

RECEIVED THE AWARD 優秀賞受賞



I received the "Outstanding Paper Award" in the paper competition of the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) in U.S.A.. I am really glad to get it.

アメリカの国際比較教育学会のPaper competitionで優秀賞をとりました!受賞を聞いたときはとても嬉しかったです。


Kyoko TANIGUCHI
谷口京子

Graduation Ceremony 卒業式

The graduation ceremony was conducted on March 23rd.
Mr. Nobekawa and Mr. Ohashi graduated from our lab.
Congrats we wish you all the best!!

3月23日に卒業式が行われ、私たちの研究室から延川さんと大橋さんが卒業されました。
おめでとうございます。
今後のご活躍を期待してます!

Monday, January 7, 2013

平川研のお正月


あけましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願い申し上げます。

 平川研の元日は、論文を執筆している平川先生と、1月3日にマラウィへ調査に出発するための準備に余念がない谷口京子さんが、スーパーからお取り寄せのおせち料理を囲んで、さびしく、かつ、かしましく過ごしました。
 その後、二人で御建(みたけ)神社に初もうで。おみくじを引いたら、谷口さんは大吉、平川先生は末吉で、「言葉を慎むように」とのありがたいお言葉をいただきました。
 今年もよい年でありますように。