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Publication Date: 2014
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Toward Professionalisation or De-Professionalisation? Teacher Education over the Past 40 Years: A Japanese Retrospection
Suzuki, Shin'ichi
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v40 n5 p524-542 2014
In this paper, I will discuss how to enhance Japanese teacher education. After sketching teacher education from the mid-1940s to the 1960s, I sum up the main topics people discussed through each decade of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. Illustrating some of the current topics of teacher education in the first decade of the new century, I discuss what they would create by way of introducing a new type of Graduate School into the teacher education institutions, which raises the question whether Graduate Schools heighten teachers' professionalism or not. In conclusion, I propose an ideal network for promoting teaching expertise.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational History, Schools of Education, Graduate Study, Expertise, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Teacher Certification, College Credits, Knowledge Management, Social Environment, Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan
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