Fluctuations in the professionality and professionalism of the teaching profession in Japan: a perspective against the “learnification” of teacher education
Fluctuations in the professionality and professionalism of the teaching profession in Japan: a perspective against the “learnification” of teacher education
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日本教师职业的专业性和专业性的波动:教师教育“学习”的视角
DOI:
10.1080/1359866x.2022.2135488
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Ishii Terumasa
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作者:
Chisato Abe;Tomoko Imai;Sezaki Ayako;Miyamoto Keiko;Fumiya Kawase;Yoshiro Shirai;Masayo Sanada;Ayaka Inden;Takumi Kato;Norie Sugihara;Hiroshi Shimokata.;石井 英真;Ishii Terumasa
In Japan, the complexity of the teaching profession has been downplayed in the course of repeated systemic reforms, wherein the profession is increasingly viewed as a technical operation. In response to this trend, the concept of “reflective practitioner” (Schön, D. A.) has been proposed as a counterpoint. While it has influenced the discussion of teacher education reform thereafter, it has also been coopted into what Gert Biesta calls “learnification” of teacher education. This paper outlines the trends and debates of teacher education reform in Japan and discusses ways to avoid the “learnification” of teacher education. This paper speaks directly to Item No. 1 of the 8 challenges put forward by the APJTE editors, which concerns the redefinition of teaching “as a technical operation aimed at the effective production of measurable learning outcomes” and its implications for teacher agency, identity and professionalism. It uses Japan as a case to depict the situation in which the trivialisation of teaching into a technical operation and the de-professionalisation of the teaching profession are proceeding not only through the action of educational policy but also through the interaction with discourses that are intended to criticise it.