Study of Eligibility Requirements for University Lecturers on Teacher Education for Advanced Professionals

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590192
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Osaka Kyoiku University
• Principal Investigator: TOMITA FUKUYO 大阪教育大学, 連合教職実践研究科, 教授 (40369591)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): URANO Toyokazu 帝京大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70002467) ; SUGIMOTO Mariko 帝京大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70130010)
• Research Collaborator: TAN Oon Seng シンガポールナイヤン工科大学, National Institute of Education, Professor ; NOMURA Sachiyo 茨城大学, 大学教育センター, 准教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 教職大学院 / 実務家教員 / 理論と実践 / 高度専門職業人養成 / 教職大学院教員の養成 / 大学教員の資質要件 / 教師教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explored the eligibility requirements for university lecturers on teacher education for advanced professionals by qualitative research on the reality of the professional schools for teachers in Japan. The practice is important to the resent teacher education for professionals. This study mainly used questionnaires and interviews in addition to the case studies in domestic and overseas fieldwork.
The main finding is that there are various understandings between the key words associated practice such as knowledge of practice, practicum, practical research, teaching practitioner, and there is no common concepts in its community. There are differences between universities on the teaching practitioners, their definitions, and eligibility requirements for them. They are still groping in the dark. It is urgent that their examinations and the development of the quality assurance system of the teaching practitioners in the near future.

Free Research Field

教師教育、カリキュラム研究