The New Roles of School and Teachers in an Era of Education Reform

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The prominent features of Japanese schooling, that is the holistic undertaken in the school and the teacher as a craftman, have been a good model for the United States and U.K.to follow. However, these Japanese typed school is changing with astonishing speed, now in Japan.On the basis of these conditions, the purpose of this research is to consider the new role of the school and teachers from now on.For carrying out this project :(1)some kinds of survey were planned : 1)the survey concerning with school and community relationship, 2)the investigation into the actual conditions of the educational policy about the teacher,(2)I had interviews with some teachers about their opinions of the education reform in Japan, and(3)The documents of the restorative practice were collected by attending international conference.The findings getting by these data are as follows :(1)logically, as the new role of school and teacher, 4 typed model are analyzed. This 4 typed model is useful to make a clear about the problems on the new role of the school and teacher in education reform era.(2)The 4^<th> typed model shows new one and have not considered till now. That is the type, the role of school is restricted within the subject teaching and the teacher concern with his/ her students' background inclusively within improving their academic performance.(3)The concept of the school as a social center, that is introduced by the reports of the restorative practice, is available for developing this 4^<th> typed model.