Jason Goulah

Jason Jei Goulah has been dean of Japanese Study Abroad for five years and is currently a professor in Chicago. From 2000-2007, Jei was a language instructor (Japanese, ESL, and Russian) and co-director of the Academy of International Studies at North Tonawanda High School in North Tonawanda, New York. In 2005, Jei served as an adjunct in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo and, from 2000-2001, served as senior lecturer of Japanese at Niagara University in New York. He taught English in Japan from 1995-1999.

Jei earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction in second and foreign language education, an M.Ed. in teaching English to speakers of other languages, and a B.A. in Japanese and Russian languages and cultural studies at the University at Buffalo.  He was the first American to graduate from Kwansei Gakuin University School of Law (Japan). Jei earned an LL.M. in fundamental laws in 1999. From 2004-2005, Jei served as a researcher on Buddhism and Japanese secular law for the Law and Buddhism Project with the University at Buffalo Law School‘s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.

Jei’s research interests include transformative second and foreign language learning, Makiguchian and sociocultural approaches to learning and development, educating immigrant students from the former Soviet Union, and language, identity and new literacies. His research articles have appeared in such journals as Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Foreign Language Annals, and Journal of Transformative Education.