Cooperative Research on Teacher Education in Universities

该项目由来自10所大学教育学院的25名研究人员在1888年和1989年进行了为期两年的研究，旨在确定研究课题并开展教师教育研究。该项目是其他日美合作项目的一部分。因此，预期将有助于1988年至1991年期间每年举行由日本和美国这一领域的研究人员参加的联合讨论会，并将受益于在这种场合和其他场合交流经验。过去两年进行的研究涵盖了三个子领域：教师教育的结构和标准、课程及其知识库、教师和教师候选人的质量。在结构上，以新修订的教师资格证书为研究中心，分析了新修订的教师资格证书在国家层面的内容和政策形成过程，以及对个别院校的影响。研究了青少年价值观和行为的变化以及由此产生的社会对教师角色的期望。新证书的内容和实际采用情况似乎没有充分反映这种社会变化。这些研究是为初步培训教师和在职培训课程的知识基础而进行的。对教学理论的专业知识建构进行了研究尝试，并对理论与实践相结合的教师教育的临床途径进行了实验。本研究旨在了解学生和教师对教学专业的看法和形象，以及他们在职业生涯的不同阶段对培训的需求。建议教师教育计划应贯穿其整个职业生涯的发展。

This project, which have been conducted for two years of 1888 and 1989 with 25 researchers from 10 university faculties of education, aims at identifying research topics and conducting researches in teacher education. This project constitutes part of other Japan-U.S. joint project on research in teacher education, and thus is expected to contribute to joint seminars, which are to be held annually between 1988 and 1991 and to be participated by both Japanese and American researchers in this field, and also to be benefited from the exchanges of experiences in such occasions and others.The researches, which have been conducted for the past two years, cover three sub-areas, structure and standards in teacher education, curriculum and its knowledge-base, and quality of teachers and teacher candidates. On the structure, the researches are centered to the newly revised teachers certificates, and analysis is made both for its contents and processes of policy formation at national level and for its effects in individual institutions. The researches are also made for changing values and behaviors of Youths and resultant social expectation on teachers roles. The contents and actual adoption of the new certificates seen not to reflect enough such social changes. The studies are done for knowledge base of curricula both for initial training of teachers and for in-service training. A research attempt was made to build professional knowledge on teaching-learning theories, and experiments were made for clinical approaches for teacher education which should combine theory with practice. Several researches were conducted to identify the opinions an images of teaching professions among students and teachers, and also to identify the needs for training in different stages of their professional lives. It is suggested that the programs for teacher education should be planned developmentally throughout their professional careers.