Oshie Nishimura-Sahi

Oshie Nishimura-Sahi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, and an educational researcher at the University of Tokyo, Japan (2025-2026). Her research interests include global education policies and trends, the transnational mobility of educational ideas, and the interactions of diverse actors in policy transfer processes and power dynamics therein. In her most recent work, she seeks to advance methodological and epistemological diversity in comparative education research by incorporating Japanese intellectual traditions and employing autobiographical ethnography.

Her current postdoctoral research aims to contribute to policy movement studies by informing global discussions on the commodification and commercialisation of education as a national project and its inherent ethical challenges. To achieve the aim, this research examines the Finnish case of education export, while analysing the intersection of government-led education export initiative, neonationalism, and neocolonialism. By so doing, it explores new approaches to ethical and sustainable transnational education.

Her research interests comprise also such themes as memory work and educational research, multicultural and intercultural education, foreign language education policy and education systems in Japan and Finland.

• Nishimura-Sahi, O. (2024). Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resources: Self-reflective inquiry into the onto-epistemic foundations of global education policy research. Comparative Education, 61(1), 122–140. (open access)
• Nishimura-Sahi, O. & Piattoeva, N. (2024). ‘Global’ as co-construction: Socio-material analysis of global education policy. In D. B. Edwards, T. Verger, K. Takayama and M. McKenzie (Eds.), Researching global education policy: Diverse approaches to policy movement (pp. 232–252). Policy Press.
• Nishimura-Sahi, O. (2024). フィンランドの教育輸出戦略—モデル化・ブランド化・商品化 [Strategy of Finnish education export—Modeling, branding and commodifying]. In K. Takayama & T. Okitsu (Eds.), 教育輸出を問う: 「日本型教育の海外展開（EDU-Port）」の政治と倫理 [Exploring education exports: Politics and ethics of Japan’s EDU-Port] (pp. 263–286). Akashi Shoten.
• Nishimura-Sahi, O. (2023). Fūdo in foreign language learning in Japan and Finland: An autoethnographic study of a PhD Journey. The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 41(1): 62-83. (open access)
• Nishimura-Sahi, O. (2022). Assembling educational standards: Following the actors of the CEFR-J project. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21 (3): 392-404. (open access) 
• Nishimura-Sahi, O. (2020). Policy borrowing of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in Japan: An analysis of the interplay between global education trends and national policymaking. Asian Pacific Journal of Education, 42 (3): 574-587. (open access)