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The SOLES Global Center is pleased to welcome to campus International Visiting Scholars for varying short studies, semester-long programs, or an academic year. The SOLES building has an office space for International Visiting Scholars in the Global Center, and can assist the scholar in finding housing near campus for their time visiting the university. If you are interested in becoming an International Visiting Scholar at the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Education Sciences, please contact Cindy Martinez at cynthiam-11@sandiego.edu, or (619) 260-7443.

Spring 2011 International Visiting Scholar

Masaru Yamashita is an Associate Professor of Business at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Yamashita will be visiting SOLES until April 2012. His research interests are in the development of transformational leaders with the viewpoint of work to career design. While at SOLES, he plans to conduct a comparative research study of vocational learning in the United States and Japan. Dr. Yamashita is available to make class visits and meet with faculty, staff and students. He can be reached via email at: yamashita@busi.aoyama.ac.jp

Spring 2010 International Visiting Scholar

Netkey Safi is a visiting scholar in SOLES from January 2010 to June 2010. Her research stay is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She completed her High School Diploma in Bonn (Germany) and studied General, Clinical and Applied Psychology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her master thesis work was entitled “The impact of time pressure on the choice of risk defusing operators.” During her studies she has gained experience through various internships e.g. at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychology in Munich (Germany) or at the University Hospital of Psychiatry in Berne (Switzerland).

Since 2007, she has worked as a research assistant for the Department of Education at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in a project about high school dropouts. Her current work on her dissertation focuses on stress and coping aspects of high school students with discontinuous school careers in Switzerland. Her data set combines quantitative as well as qualitative data. The aim of her analyses is to recover school-related stress factors of students with irregular school careers and how they cope with school-related stress compared to students with continuous school careers.

Visiting Scholar, Research Assistant at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland M.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Fall 2008 International Visiting Scholar

Dr. Atsushi Takei is a visiting scholar in SOLES from September 2008 to January 2009. In his native Japan, he works for the Graduate school of HUTE (Hyogo University of Teachers Education), one of the first professional schools for school leaders. He teaches 'fieldwork methods,' 'curriculum development,' 'community involvement for school' and others there. Apart from the graduate school program, he has launched an out service learning program for undergraduates as a project leader. Outside the university, he has organized training programs of curriculum development for school leaders in Hyogo prefecture. The programs were carried out as part of an in-service training for 1,200 school leaders in the past five years, approximately. He has published papers in organizational theory of school, leadership, and networking. His co-authored book titled, 'To Train School Leaders' is scheduled to be published in fall 2008. He used to work on Indian Education. His doctoral dissertation was on rural school in southern Indian village, published as a book in 2003, titled 'Ethnographic Study of a Krishnamurti School.' His current research focuses on networking of alternative practices in education, aiming to cope with social diversity.