Kei Nishiyama

Profile Information

Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Kaichi International University
: Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Legal Studies, Kansai University

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy(Mar, 2019, University of Canberra)
修士（教育学）(Mar, 2014, 立教大学)
学士（文学）(Mar, 2012, 立教大学)

Contact information: k.nishiyamakaichi.ac.jp
Researcher number: 00876211
J-GLOBAL ID: 202001001981040948
researchmap Member ID: R000001311

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University
Apr, 2023 - Present

Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Legal Studies, Kansai University
Apr, 2023 - Present

Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Kaichi International University
Sep, 2019 - Present

Associate, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
Apr, 2023 - Aug, 2023

Part-time lecturer, College of Arts Department of Education, Rikkyo University
Apr, 2023 - Aug, 2023

Part-time lecturer, School of Law, Nagoya University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University
Dec, 2022 - Dec, 2022

Visiting Fellow, Universität Tübingen, Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften
May, 2019 - Nov, 2019

Senior Research Officer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Jan, 2019 - Jul, 2019

Research Assistant, Faculty of Business, Government, and Law, University of Canberra
Jan, 2019 - Jul, 2019

Teaching Staff (Tutor), Faculty of Business, Government, Law, University of Canberra
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2017

Part-time Lecturer, Online Course, Tokyo Future University
May, 2016 - Jun, 2016

Visiting Research Fellow, Institute für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Stuttgart

Education

Feb, 2015 - Mar, 2019

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Ph.D. course, University of Canberra
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2014

Faculty of Arts in Education, Masters Course, Graduate School of Arts, Rikkyo University
Apr, 2008 - Mar, 2012

Department of Arts in Education, Rikkyo University

Papers

Facilitation of deliberation in the classroom: The interplay of facilitative technique and design to create a space for dmeocracy

Kei Nishiyama, Russell Wendy, Chalaye Pierrick, Greenwell Tom

Democracy & Education, 31 1-11, May, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author
Creating counter-publics through deliberation in the classroom: The case of philosophy for children

Kei Nishiyama

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 18(2) 115-130, Feb 8, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Democratic education in the fourth generation of deliberative democracy

Kei Nishiyama

Theory and Research in Education, 19(2) 109-126, May, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Philosophy for Children and Democracy: Theory and Practice for Visualizing Preference Change and Consensus-Making

Nishiyama Kei, Murase Tomoyuki, Ogawa Taiji

Thinking and Dialogue, 2 26-37, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Between protection and participation: Rethinking children’s right to participation in protests on streets, online spaces, and schools

Nishiyama Kei

Journal of Human Rights, 19(4) 501-517, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Review Article: Philosophical inquiry with children: The development of an inquiring society in Australia

Nishiyama Kei

Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 27(1) 68-72, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Deliberative children in democracy: Classrooms, schools and streets

Nishiyama Kei

Unpublished Ph.D. thesis submitted to University of Canberra, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
Rethinking consensus in the community of philosophical inquiry: A research agenda

Nishiyama Kei

Childhood & Philosophy, 15 83-97, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
Using the community of inquiry for interviewing children: Theory and practice

Nishiyama Kei

International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21(5) 553-564, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Enabling children's deliberation in deliberative systems: Schools as a mediating space

Nishiyama Kei

Journal of Youth Studies, 22(4) 473-488, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Child-activism and deliberative systems: Toward alternative understanding of children's participation

Nishiyama Kei

Annual Review of Materialism in Japan, 20(22) 200-220, 2017 Peer-reviewedLead author
Deliberators, not future citizens: Children in democracy

Nishiyama Kei

Journal of Public Deliberation, 13(1) 1-24, 2017 Peer-reviewedLead author

Books and Other Publications

The if machine

Rei Nagai, Taiji Ogawa, Yuya Koga, Minori Goto, Risa Tanaka, Chiaki Tokui, Kei Nishiyama, Yosuke Horikoshi (Role: Joint translator)

Nov, 2023
Inquiry into democratic pedagogy: Philosophy for children in theory and practice

Nishiyama Kei (Role: Contributor, Epistemic in justice in the community of inquiry and the role of facilitation)

The University of Tokyo Press, Sep, 2023 (ISBN: 9784130562393)
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens' Assemblies

Kei Nishiyama (Role: Contributor, Chapter 13. Deliberation in Citizens' Assemblies with Children)

De Gruyter, May, 2023
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy

Kei Nishiyama (Role: Contributor, Community of Inquiry (pp. 450-461))

Oxford University Press, Oct, 2022 (ISBN: 9780192873361)
Philosophy with Children and Teacher Education: Global Perspectives on Critical, Creative and Caring Thinking

Kei Nishiyama, Taiji Ogawa, Tomoyuki Murase, Kohei Seki (Role: Contributor, Becoming a Philosophy for Children teacher through informal training: Challenges, opportunities and conducive conditions: pp. 207-216)

Routledge, 2022 (ISBN: 9781000686807)
Philosophical dialogue;for;beginner

Kono Tetsuya, Tokui Chiaki, Nagai Rei

Hitsuji Shobo, Oct, 2020 (ISBN: 9784823410321)
多文化・多民族共生時代の世界の生涯学習

岩崎, 正吾, 若園, 雄志郎, 宮崎, 敦子, 大谷, 杏, 児玉, 奈々, 永田, 祥子, 田中, 達也, 福田, 誠治, 呉, 世蓮, 張, 鵬(教育学), 韓, 冀娜, 西山, 渓, 木田, 竜太郎, 上野, 昌之, 井谷, 泰彦, 西村, 芳彦

学文社, 2018 (ISBN: 9784762027574)
こころのナゾとき(全3巻）

土屋, 陽介, (編)

成美堂出版, 2017 (ISBN: 9784415321233)

Presentations

Adult-led or collaborative inclusion? Children in climate assemblies

Kei Nishiyama

Japan-UK Mutual Learning on Climate Assemblies and Climate Democracy: A Research Workshop, Mar 15, 2024 Invited
Listening in dialogue: Insights from epistemic injustice

Kei Nishiyama

Japan Citizenship Education Forum, Jan 27, 2024 Invited
Divided societies and political education

Kei Nishiyama

Oct 8, 2023
Discussant

Nishiyama Kei

Japanese Political Science Association, Sep 17, 2023
Philosophy goes to social movements

Nishiyama Kei

Japanese Society for Philosophical Practice Symposium, Sep 3, 2023 Invited
Compounding injustice: Youth climate activism and epistemic oppressions in the public sphere

Kei Nishiyama

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar Series, Aug 22, 2023
Discussant: Philosophical Practice Today

Tomokazu Baba, Gadner Susan, Raabe Peter, Yohsuke Tsuchiya, Kei Nishiyama

The Philosophical Association of Japan, May 21, 2023
The double injustice: Youth climate activism in the unjust public sphere

Kei Nishiyama

Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften Colloquium, Dec 6, 2022
"Wings of the stage" of the youth climate activism: Ethnographic story of FFF Kyoto

Kei Nishiyama

Japan Association of Political Science, Oct 1, 2022
Climate governance from below: Ethnographic stories on #FridaysForFuture Kyoto

Kei Nishiyama

The 4th International Interdisciplinary Symposium between Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Doshisha University, Sep 12, 2022 Invited
Community of inquiry naturalised: or youth climate activists' political use of the community of inuqiry

Kei Nishiyama

The 20th International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children Biennial Conference, Aug 9, 2022
Paulo Freire revisited: Critical and creative dialogue with Walter Omar Kohan

Kei Nishiyama, Walter Omar Kohan, Rose-Anne Reynolds, Maria Teresa de la Garza, Yohsuke Tsuchiya, Minori Goto, Rei Nagai

The 20th International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children Biennial Conference, Aug 9, 2022
Community of inquiry with weak ties

Wakako Godo, Ken Kurasaki, Tomoyuki Murase, Taiji Ogawa, Kei Nishiyama

The 20th International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children Biennial Conference, Aug 8, 2022
Teaching the total texture of democracy: A praxis story

Kei Nishiyama

Canadian Political Science Association 2022 Conference, Jun 3, 2022 Invited
A critical analysis of individualism in education: Beyond non-individualistic conceptions of teacher ethics

Yohsuke Tsuchiya, Tomoyuki Murase, Kei Nishiyama

The 14th Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, May 28, 2022
Teaching the 'total texture of democracy' in a democratic way

Kei Nishiyama

Apr 20, 2022 Invited
Facilitation and the epistemic injustice in dialogue

Kei Nishiyama

Toward a de-individualised professional ethics for teacher, Mar 14, 2022
Facilitation of deliberation in the classroom: The interplay of facilitative technique and design to make a space for democracy

Kei Nishiyama, Russell Wendy, Chalaye Pierrick

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar Series, Nov 16, 2021
On the danger of the decorative use of youth climate activism?

Kei Nishiyama

Yonaoshi - Remake the World, Nov 14, 2021 Invited
Democracy within the movement: A childism perspective

Kei Nishiyama

Transnational Childism Colloquium, May 21, 2021 Invited

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2024 - Present

Introduction to Social Research Methodology (Kaichi International University)
Apr, 2024 - Present

Minority and Human Rights (Kaichi International University)
Apr, 2024 - Present

Introduction to Politics (Kaichi International University)
Sep, 2023 - Present

Philosophy (Kaichi International University)
Apr, 2023 - Present

Seminar (Kaichi International University)
Apr, 2023 - Aug, 2023

Political Theory (Nagoya University)
Apr, 2023 - Aug, 2023

Seminar (Philosophy of Education) (Rikkyo University)
Sep, 2021 - Jan, 2023

Academic Skill: Ethics of genome editing and AI technology (Doshisha University)
Sep, 2020 - Jan, 2023

Study on Public Works (Doshisha University)
Sep, 2020 - Jan, 2023

Policy Issues: Democratic innovations in the crisis of democracy (Doshisha University)
Sep, 2020 - Jan, 2023

Academic Skill: Children and youth political participation (Doshisha University)
Apr, 2020 - Jan, 2023

Academic Skill: Introduction to fieldwork and interviews (Doshisha University)
Apr, 2020 - Aug, 2022

Academic Skill: A workshop for academic reading and book review (Doshisha University)
Apr, 2020 - Aug, 2022

First Year Experience (Doshisha University)
Sep, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Academic Skill: New forms of civic participation (Doshisha University)
Jan, 2019 - Jul, 2019

Social and Political Theory (University of Canberra)
2015 - 2017

Education and Identity (Tokyo Future University)

Research Projects

Research on the possibilities and challenges of climate democracy in Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2027
Unpacking teacher's professionalism and establishing ethics in teaching profession

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026
The moral responsibility of facilitator in the face of epistemic exclusion in deliberative pedagogy

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2025

Kei Nishiyama
Children and youth-led climate citizens' assembly at Kyoto city: Practical insights

Doshisha University SDGs Resaerch, Doshisha University, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Kei Nishiyama
Deliberative pedagogy for democratic disagreement: A practical study

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Sep, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Nishiyama Kei
Developing students' facilitation skills in dialogue education in Kosen

Hitachi Foundation, 2020 - 2021
Deliberating abortion and ethical responsibility of future engineers

Doshisha University and Tübingen University Researcher-Exchange Program, Doshisha University, 2021

Nishiyama Kei
Meta-consensus in deliberative education

The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, 2019 - 2020
Deliberation in Schools

Pitch for Funding, International Association for Public Participation Australasia, 2018 - 2019

Russell Wendy, Nishiyama Kei, Pierrick Chalaye
Understanding and evaluating deliberative systems

Deutscher Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD), 2015 - 2016

John Dryzek, André Bächtiger, Selen Ercan, Nishiyama Kei, Eda Kremoglu-Waibler
The contribution of philosophy for children in deliberative democracy

Rikkyo University, 2013 - 2014

Misc.

Philosophy, children and politics: "Young Plato" and the safer space (No. 1)

Kei Nishiyama

Philosophy and Culture, 8(3) 272-286, Dec, 2023 InvitedLead author
Book review: Arendt's political philosophy and the philosophy cafe

Nishiyama Kei

Thinking and Dialogue, 3 59, Jul, 2021 Invited
Freedom, dialogue and mock election: A critical review on Koichi Sasaki's mock election practice

Nishiyama Kei

Nakama, (456) 1-3, May, 2021 Invited
Book Reviews Volume 16, Issue 1

Mockler, Patricia, Motta, Filippe, Nishiyama, Kei, Rountree, John

Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 67-74, 2020 Invited
A review of Ono Kazuo's practice reports

Nishiyama Kei

Nakama, (541、542) 1-2, 2020 InvitedLead author
Reflection on the 19th International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children Biennial Conference at Bogota, Colombia

Nishiyama Kei

Thinking and Dialogue, 2 95-99, 2020 InvitedLead author
Facilitation of deliberation in the classroom: The interplay of facilitative technique and design to increase inclusiveness

Nishiyama Kei, Wendy Russell, Pierrick Chalaye

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Working Paper Series, (4) 1-22, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Consensus or disagreement? Theory and practice for inducing meta-consensus in deliberative pedagogy

Nishiyama Kei

2020 Lead author
Engineer education as citizenship education

Ogawa Taiji, Murase Tomoyuki, Nishiyama Kei

Proceedings of InInternational Symposium on Advances in Technology Education Conference. International Symposium on Advances in Technology Education, 326-331, 2020 Peer-reviewedLast author
Deliberation with Young People

Russell Wendy, Nishiyama Kei, Chalaye Pierrick

Practitioner Development Resource in International Association for Public Participation Australasia, 2019
Deliberation in Hawker College

Russel Wendy, Nishiyama Kei, Chalaye Pierrick

Research Report submitted to International Association for Public Participation Australasia, 2019
Deliberation in Ainslie School

Russell Wendy, Nishiyama Kei, Chalaye Peirrick

Research Report submitted to International Association for Public Participation Australasia, 2019
A dialogue-centred approach to language education: The case in Canberra

Nishiyama Kei

International Education, 24 137-142, 2018 Invited
Enabling children's deliberation: Schools as a mediating space

Nishiyama Kei

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Working Paper Series 1/2018, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
探求の「言葉」：子どもの哲学において対話が深まるとは何か

西山渓

立教大学大学院教育学研究収録, 10 19-33, 2013 Lead author