Chau Cao
Ph.D. in International Studies
Chau Cao is a Vietnamese, Tokyo-based researcher working where three fields meet: ICT in education, reconciliation studies, and international education. The questions that hold Chau's attention rarely stay inside one discipline for long.
Chau is affiliated with Dai Nam University and Waseda University, and teaches CLIL courses on global relations and English language instruction at universities across Japan. Alongside this academic work, Chau works as a translator and announcer for the Vietnamese section of NHK World Japan, a second vantage point on the same questions of language, education, and how societies come to understand one another.
Publications.
A short record of the written work so far: peer-reviewed research alongside a pair of translations that grew out of the same interest in how ideas travel between Vietnamese and Japanese.
Journal articles
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Peer-reviewed
Beyond the gender gap: The role of cultural, socioeconomic, and familial factors in Vietnamese students' STEM major choices -
Peer-reviewed
Review the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education for People with Disabilities in Asia
Translation works
- Cẩm Nang Cỏ Cây Kỳ Quái
- Kỹ Năng Quản Lý Nhân Sự Của Người Nhật
Research.
Chau's work returns to comparative international education: how different systems choose to include or overlook their minority and disabled students, and what those choices reveal about the societies making them.
A second, quieter thread follows everyday and grassroots reconciliation: the reconciling that happens in classrooms, families, and neighbourhoods, long before it reaches a treaty or a truth commission. It is reconciliation as daily practice, not as ceremony.
Technology rarely changes what a society values. It changes who gets to reach it.
The third thread, ICT in education and social change, is where the other two meet, asking what happens to inclusion and reconciliation once access to education runs through a screen instead of a classroom.