2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Educational Reform and the future of the Teaching Profession
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18530658
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology of education
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| Research Institution | Fukuoka University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
YUFU Sawako Fukuoka University of Education, Department of Education, Professor (80183987)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | educational reform / the teacher evaluation system / teachers' attitudes towards the educational reform / the culture of teaching |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to consider how teachers recognize their work conditions and missions as teaching profession in the era of educational reform.
In recent years, lots of nations have promoted educational refor based on neo-liberalism. The new educational policy such as teacher evaluation, professional graduate school,' super teacher' and a teacher certification renewal system carried out in JAPAN.
How do teachers perceive this current? It is important to consider teachers' grasp and reaction against this educational reform. And to investigate teachers' recognition about the educational reform provide us the data to think about a model of the future teaching profession. In addition, to make a discussion based on the data is enable to the international comparative study as for a teaching profession.
I conducted a survey of teachers' perception about the educational reform, especially the change of their work conditions, focusing on the public school teachers. As a result, I got the more over 1000 teachers' data.
The findings getting by this survey are as follow:
(1) teachers in Japan agree with the educational reform. Most of them are getting reflective about their practice by teacher evaluation system. Most of them require the supporting by another kinds of profession like a counselor and the volunteers, as so far as their hegemonies in their classroom are not disturb.
(2) Teachers, who agree with the educational reform, work harder than others. Therefore they are exhausted by hard work.
(3) These results different from the conditions in the U. K. reported by S. Ball.
(4) The teachers' attitudes towards the educational reform relate the traditional role perception in Japan
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