The Educational Reform and the future of the Teaching Profession

本研究旨在探讨教育改革时代教师如何认识自己作为教师职业的工作条件和使命。近年来，许多国家都在推进以新自由主义为基础的教育改革。日本实施了新的教育政策，如教师评价、专业研究生院、“超级教师”和教师资格认证更新制度。教师如何看待这股潮流？要考虑教师对这一教育改革的把握和反应。调查教师对教育改革的认知度，为我们思考未来教师职业模式提供了数据依据。此外，在数据的基础上进行探讨，有利于教师职业的国际比较研究。我以公立学校教师为调查对象，调查了教师对教育改革特别是工作条件变化的看法。结果，我得到了1000多名教师的数据。调查结果如下：(1)日本教师对教育改革持赞同态度。大多数教师都在通过教师评价体系对自己的实践进行反思。他们中的大多数人需要另一种职业的支持，比如辅导员和志愿者，只要他们在课堂上的霸权不被打扰。赞成教育改革的教师比其他人工作更努力。因此，他们被辛苦的工作弄得筋疲力尽。(3)这些结果与S. Ball报道的英国情况不同。(4)教师对教育改革的态度与日本传统角色观念有关

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