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Paper short abstract:

My presentation is going to look at a study tour in Australian Indigenous Community, which is supported by Ryukoku University from 2016 to 2018 with my coordination. I considered what problems and difficulties the Study Tour faces and analyzed various perspectives among host, guest and coordinator.

Paper long abstract:

In this presentation, I am going to look at a study tour in Australian Indigenous Community, which is supported by Ryukoku University from 2016 to 2018 with my coordination. I considered what problems and difficulties the Study Tour faces and analyzed various perspectives among host, guest and coordinator through discourse analysis, survey results from students and host contributors, and analysis of reports written by participants. It clarifies several things. Firstly, students experience their own unique “stories” in interactions with local people, and try to make use in their subsequent lives of what they have acquired at the boundary between their own culture and other cultures. Moreover, after completing the study tour, it is necessary to guide reflection on oneself through the experience gained. Secondly host society and Aboriginal people need to keep their initiative so much “local discretion” is guaranteed so that they might perform a “culture for study tour” and to present a part of daily life based on their own decisions. Thirdly, as for coordinator, it is important to explore whether the roles of "organizer" and "coordinator" could be established with "hosts" and "guests" by utilizing Information and Communication Technology such as SNS so that the relationship between "host" and "guest" could be maintained without destroying relationships.

I conclude my presentation with a proposal to see "Study Tour as forum“, in which various stake holders at individual, local, national and international levels can exchange their experiences.