The Educational Reform and the future of the Teaching Profession

本研究的目的是探讨在教育改革的时代，教师如何认识自己作为教师职业的工作条件和使命。日本实施了教师评价、专业研究生院、“超级教师”、教师资格证更新制度等新的教育政策。教师们如何看待这一潮流？教师对这场教育改革的把握和反应是一个重要的问题。而调查教师对教育改革的认知，则为我们思考未来教师职业的模式提供了数据。另外，基于数据的讨论也为教师职业的国际比较研究提供了依据。笔者以公立学校教师为研究对象，对教师对教育改革尤其是工作环境变化的感受进行了调查。通过对1000多名日本教师的问卷调查，得出以下结论：（1）日本教师对教育改革持赞同态度。他们中的大多数人通过教师评价制度反思自己的实践。他们中的大多数人需要另一种职业的支持，如辅导员和志愿者，只要他们在课堂上的霸权不被打扰。(2)赞成教育改革的教师比其他人工作更努力。因此，他们被艰苦的工作弄得筋疲力尽。(3)这些结果与美国的情况不同。K.报道称，S。球(4)教师对教育改革的态度与日本传统的角色观念有关

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