ELPS Faculty
Joseph J. Tobin Nadine Mathis Basha Professor in Early Childhood Education Curriculum & Instruction Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Email: joseph.tobin@asu.edu Office: Farmer 244A Phone: 480.965.1451

ACADEMIC TRAINING

Post-doctoral Fellow, The East-West Center (1983-5)

Ph.D., The University of Chicago, The Committee on Human Development (1983)

(Thesis title: “Strange Foreigners: American Images of Japan and the Japanese”)

The Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago (1972-74)

B.A. Earlham College (1972)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Nadine Mathis Basha Professor of Early Childhood Education, Arizona State University. 2001-

Visiting Professor, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, Winter and Spring, 2000.

Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Sciences of Play, Spring, 1999

Professor, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, University of Hawaii, 1997—

Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, and Center for Youth Research, University of Hawaii, 1992--1996

Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, and Center for Youth Research, University of Hawaii, 1990--1992

Assistant Professor, Family Studies, University of New Hampshire, 1989-1990

Assistant Professor, Family Resources, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1985-1989

Director, East Asian Center, Friends World College, Kyoto, Japan, 1983-4

Director of Training, State of Illinois, Refugee Resettlement Services, 1979-1981

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Outstanding Scholar Award, Comparative and International Education Society, 1987.

National Institute of Mental Health, Asian-Pacific Culture and Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1983-85).

Japan Foundation Fellow (1976).

Phi Beta Kappa (1972)

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Joseph Tobin (Ed). Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon. Duke University Press (forthcoming) 2003.

Joseph Tobin, Good Guys Don’t Wear Hats: Children’s Talk about the Media. Teachers College Press, 2000.

Joseph Tobin (ed.), Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education. Yale University Press, 1997.

Joseph Tobin (ed.), Remade in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society. Yale University Press, 1992. (Published in Japanese, Sakuma Tooru (trans.), Tokyo: Gigi Press, 1995).

Joseph Tobin, David Wu, and Dana Davidson, Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States, Yale University Press, 1989. (Published in Korean in 1994; in Chinese with a new preface by the first author in 1996; and in Italian in 2000).

Barbara Finkelstein, Ann Imamura and Joseph Tobin, Transcending Stereotypes: Discovering Japanese Culture and Education, Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, 1991

Joseph Tobin, Madogiwa No Americajin: Outsiders` Images of Japan and the Japanese, Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1984.

Joseph Tobin, Nippon Gensoo (Images of Japan), Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983 (in Japanese).

Refereed articles and book chapters:

Joseph Tobin, “The ‘Glocalization’ of Pokemon.” In C. Feilitzen & U. Carlesson (Eds.), Children and Global Media. Goteborg, Sweden: UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen. 2002.

D. Grace & J. Tobin, “Pleasure, Creativity, and the Carnivalesque in Children’s Video Production,” in L. Bressler & C.Thompson (Eds.). The Arts in Early Childhood Education. 2002.

Joseph Tobin, “The Missing Discourse of Sexuality in Contemporary American Early Childhood Education.” in The Annual of Psychoanalysis Volume 23: Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World, (J. Winner and J. Andersn, (Eds.). Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. 2001, pps179-200).

Joseph Tobin, “Save the Geeks,” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 44:504-508. 2001.

Joseph Tobin, “Using “The Japanese Problem” as a Corrective to the Ethnocentricity of Western Theory: Reflections on the Essay By Rothbaum et al. Child Development (Volume 71, Number 5, September/October 2000.

Tobin, Joseph, “The Socio-Cultural Foundations of Student/Teacher Ratios in the American Preschool.” in Gilles Brougere and Sylvie Rayna (Eds.). Culture, Enfance, et Education Prescolaire. Paris: Unesco, 1999.

Tobin, Joseph, “Method and Meaning in Comparative Classroom Ethnography,” in R. Alexander (Ed.), Learning from Comparing: New Directions in Comparative Educational Research. Oxford: Symposium Books, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pps. 113-134.

Joseph Tobin, “An American Otaku: Adolescence, Alienation, and Media Learning outside of School.” in Julian Sefton-Green (ed.), Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia. London: Taylor and Francis, 1999. Pps. 106-127.

Joseph Tobin, “Introduction: The Missing Discourse of Pleasure and Desire in Early Childhood Education,” in Joseph Tobin (ed.), Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education, Yale University Press, 1997.

Joseph Tobin, “Playing Doctor in Two Cultures: The United States and Ireland” in Joseph Tobin (ed.), in Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education, Yale University Press, 1997.

Donna Grace and Joseph Tobin, “Butt Jokes and Teacher Parodies: Video Production in the Elementary Classroom,” in David Buckingham (ed.), Teaching Popular Culture: Beyond Radical Pedagogy. London:Taylor and Francis, 1996. (Reprinted in The Missing Discourse of Pleasure and Desire in Early Childhood Education. Joseph Tobin (ed.). New Haven:Yale University Press, forthcoming, Spring, 1997.

Joseph Tobin, "The Irony of Self-Expression," American Journal of Education, 1995:103, pages 233-258. (Excerpted and reprinted in Applying Research to the Classroom, Department of Teacher Education and Supervision, Faculty of Education, The University of Calgary, Vol. 14:1:5-8, 1995.)

Ralph Ohta and Joseph Tobin, “Video Literacy at Waiau Elementary School,” The Kamehameha Journal of Education, 6, 91-104, 1995.

Joseph Tobin and Richard Johnson, "A Multivocal, Multicultural, Multimedia Approach to Teaching Classroom Management," Teaching Education, 6(1) 113-123, 1994.

Joseph Tobin, "Early Childhood Education and the Public Schools: Obstacles to Reconstructing a Relationship," Early Education and Development, 3:2:196-200, 1992.

Joseph Tobin, "Post-Structural Research in Early Childhood Education," in Qualitative Research in Early Childhood Education (Amos Hatch, ed), New York: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Daniel Walsh, Joseph Tobin, and Elizabeth Graue, "Interpretive Research in Early Childhood Education," in Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, Bernard Spodek (ed.). New York: MacMillan, 1993.

Joseph Tobin, "Domesticating the West," in Remade in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society, Joseph Tobin (ed.). Yale University Press, 1992. Pages 1-41.

Joseph Tobin, "Japanese Preschools and the Pedagogy of Selfhood," in The Japanese Sense of Self, Nancy Rosenberger (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pages 21-39.

Joseph Tobin, "A Dialogical Approach to Fieldsite Typicality," City and Society (Summer, 1992).

Richard Johnson and Joseph Tobin, "Using Videodiscs to Simulate Multicultural Experiences in the Classroom." The Kamehameha Journal of Education, 3(2) 29-37, 1992.

Joseph Tobin and Dana Davidson, "Multivocal Ethnographies of Schools: Empowering vs. Textualizing Children and Teachers," International Journal of Qualitative Educational Research, 3:3:1991, 271-283.

Joseph Tobin, "The Human Relations Area File as Radical Text?" Cultural Anthropology 5:4:473-487, 1990.

Joseph Tobin, "Visual Anthropology and Multivocal Ethnography: A Dialogical Approach to Japanese Preschool Class Size," Dialectical Anthropology, 13:173-187, 1989.

Joseph Tobin, Dana Davidson, and David Wu, "Class-size and Student-Teacher Ratios in the Japanese Preschool," Comparative Education Review, 31:4:1987. (reprinted in Japanese Schooling: Patterns of Socialization, Equality, and Political Control, J. Shields (ed.), Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.)

Dana Davidson, David Wu, and Joseph Tobin, "Preschool Language Interaction in China, Japan, and Taiwan," The Claremont Reading Conference Yearbook, 1987.

Joseph Tobin, "American Images of Aging in Japan," The Gerontologist, 27:1:53-58, 1987.

Joseph Tobin, "(Counter)transference and Failure in Intercultural Therapy," Ethos, 14:2:120-143, 1986.

Joseph Tobin, "American Images of Japanese Education," in W. Cummings et. al. (eds.) Educational Policies in Crisis, NY: Praeger, 262-274, 1986. (Published originally in Japanese as "American Images of Japanese Secondary and Post-Secondary Education," IDE, 24:87-95, 1984).

Joseph Tobin and Vicente Diaz, "How Australians and Americans Read About Each Other," Australian Journalism Review, 7:1:61-68, 1986.

Joseph Tobin, "Intercultural and Developmental Stresses Confronting Southeast Asian Refugee Adolescents," Operational Psychiatry, 15:39-45, 1987

Joseph Tobin and Joan Friedman, "Sprits, Shamans, and Nightmare Death: Survivor Stress in a Hmong Refugee," American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 53:3;147-155, 1983. (Reprinted in The Hmong in America: Providing Ethic Sensitive Health, Education, and Human Services, M. Morgenbesser, K. McInnis, and H. Petracci, (eds.), Kendall Hunt, 1990.)

Book Reviews:

Joseph Tobin, review of Power and Emotion in Infant-Toddler Day Care, by Robin Leavitt, Qualitative Studies in Education, 8:2:211-215.

Joseph Tobin, review of The Far East Comes Near, by Lucy Nguyen and Joel Halpern, Manoa, 1990:2:192-194.

Joseph Tobin, review of The Japanese Educational Challenge, by Merry White, Journal of Asian Studies, Spring, 1989.

Joseph Tobin, review of The Japanese Through American Eyes by Sheila Johnson, Journal of Asian Studies,

Joseph Tobin, David Wu, and Dana Davidson, "How Three Key Countries Shape Their Children," World Monitor, April, 1989, 38-45. (Excerpted from Preschool in Three Cultures).

Joseph Tobin, review of The Challenge of Japan's Modernization, by Hiroshi Mannari and Harumi Befu, Asian Profile, 1987.

Joseph Tobin, "Reply to Palmore," The Gerontologist, 1987.

Joseph Tobin, review of Conflict in Japan, Ellis Kraus, Patricia Steinhoff, and Thomas Rohlen, (eds), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 1986.

Joseph Tobin, review of A Japanese Mirror, by Ian Buruma.. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 19:3-4:295-6, 1984

Joseph Tobin, review of Japan's Modern Myth, by Roy Andrew Miller, Asian Profile, 403-406, August, 1984.

Handbooks/Training Materials/Reports:

Joseph Tobin et.al, The Youth Development Project: A Course of Study. University of Hawaii Social Science Research Institute and State of Hawaii Office of Youth Research, 1993 (rewritten and reprinted in 1995 and 1996).

Joseph Tobin et. al., "The 1992 Report on Hawai'i Progress Report on the National Eduction Goals," A Center for Youth Research report prepared for the Office of the Governor and the Department of Education

Kathy Wilson and Joseph Tobin, "A Summative and Formative Evaluation of the Open Doors Project," A Center for Youth Research report prepared for the Office of Youth Services, November, 1991.

Joseph Tobin, "Marrying in and Marrying Out," in 'Gotta Match:' Courtship and the Humanities, Craig Howes (ed.). A publication of the Young Adult Services Division of the Hawaii State Public Library System and the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities. 1992.

Joseph Tobin, Nancy Koschmann, and Joan Friedman, Working with

Refugees: A Manual for Paraprofessionals, Illinois Department of Public Aid, 1980.

Magazine articles:

Joseph Tobin, "Preschool Education and Child Rearing in Japan and the United States," PHP VOICE, Nov. 1984 (in Japanese).

Joseph Tobin, "American Images of Japan," PHP VOICE, December, 1983 (in Japanese).

Joseph Tobin, "Anti-Japanese Feeling in America," Business View, 9:45-53, 1984. (in Japanese).

Video productions:

Joseph Tobin, The Youth Development Project Video Series ("Responding to Teasing," "The Self and Social Relations," “YDP at Waimanalo,” and "Video Penpal"). 4th Wave Productions, University of Hawaii Social Science Research Institute and State of Hawaii Office of Youth Research, 1993.

Richard Johnson and Joseph Tobin, "Multivocal Perspectives on Classroom Management: A Hypermedia Text." 4th Wave Productions, 1991. (50% my contribution).

Joseph Tobin (writer/director), "A Video Companion to Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States," Fourth Wave Productions, Yale University Press, distributor, 1989.

Joseph Tobin and Stuart Robson, "Providing Mental Health Services Through an Interpreter," 4th Wave Productions, Hawaii Department of Health), 1988.

Extramural grants:

Youth Development Project. State of Hawai'i Office of Youth Services grant to the UH Social Science Research Institute, 1993-1997, $1,650,000.

Using Videotape to Promote Literacy in an Elementary School. A McInerney Foundation grant. July 1, 1992-June 30, 1993-4. $70,000.

Youth Development Project. State of Hawai'i Office of Youth Services grant to the UH Social Science Research Institute, July 1, 1992-June 30, 1993. $193,000.

Hawaii's Progress on the National Eductional Goals. A Department of Education grant to the Center for Youth Research, April, 1992-September, 1992. $15,500.

Evaluating the "Parents as First Teachers" Component of Health Start. A Department of Health Grant to the Center for Youth Research, April 1, 1992-June 30, 1993. $67,000