Acknowledgements

About the original work

This resource is an adaptation of Exploring Power Dynamics in Post-Secondary Institutions, authored by Eric Sagenes as an adaptation of Kristen A. Hardy’s Understanding Social Identities Among Faculty and Students, and developed by Campus Manitoba and The Manitoba Flexible Learning Hub. Additional contributions came from community reviewers, instructional designers, and an advisory board drawn from post-secondary institutions across the province of Manitoba, Canada. We are grateful to the original authors and development team, whose thoughtful, openly licensed work made this Japan-focused edition possible. Full contributor credits are available in the original edition.

Campus Manitoba closed permanently on June 26, 2026, after more than 35 years of supporting open education across the province. This adaptation preserves and carries forward a copy of the original resource made openly available under its Creative Commons license prior to that closure.

The original resource opens with a land acknowledgement, a practice common in Canadian institutions of formally recognizing the Indigenous Peoples on whose traditional territories an organization operates. The original edition acknowledges Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 territories, the traditional lands of the Dakota Oyate and Anishinaabeg Peoples, and the National Homeland of the Métis Nation. That acknowledgement belongs to its place and its authors, and we honour rather than reproduce it here. We encourage readers to learn why land acknowledgements matter.

Japan, too, has its own histories of Indigenous peoples and marginalization that deserve reflection. In that spirit, we carry the original team’s invitation forward: to examine the histories of the places where we live and work, and to challenge racism, inequality, and colonialism in our own institutions.

About this edition

This 1st H5P Japan edition is adapted and published by the Japan Open Textbook Publishing Consortium on the Open Studio publishing platform (openstudio.pub). This edition adds additional interactive H5P learning activities, new chapters on psychological safety, and contextual adaptations for readers in Japanese higher education.

Adapted by Doug Strable 
Contributor: Jennifer Toews-Shimizu
Jennifer Toews-Shimizu contributed to the development of the Japan edition through discussion and analysis of the original materials, particularly by identifying themes in the instructor dialogues that helped illuminate challenges instructors may encounter when considering power, participation, and co-creation in their teaching.