Our Faculty

Employment History

• Professor, School of Education, Nagoya University, 2013
• Associate Professor, School of Education, Nagoya University, 1999
• Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts and Design, Saga Art College, 1996
• Instructor, Faculty of Education, Kyoto University, 1994

Educational History

• Left Ph.D. program in Educational Studies, Kyoto University, 1994
• Master of Educational Studies, Kyoto University, 1991
• Bachelor of Educational Studies, Kyoto University, 1989

Research Interests

• Autonomy of Schools
• School Improvement
• Local Management of Schools
• Process of Educational Policy Making
• Analyses of the Present Educational Reform in Germany

Recent Main Publications

• “Teacher System,” in The Kansai Society for Educational Administration, Japanese Educational System and its Administration, Toshindo Publishing Co., 2018, pp.96-107. (in English)
• “Target Agreement System between Schools and School Supervisors in Germany,” in Journal of the Japan Society for Education System and Organization, 19, 2012, pp.226-240. (in Japanese)
• “Issues of Restructuring the Concept of Educational Administration and Management in Japan,” in Journal of the Japanese Association for the Study of Educational Administration, 50, 2008, pp.14-25. (in Japanese)
• “A Board of Education in Local Management: A Case Study of Reforms in Takahama City, Aichi,” in Bulletin of the Japan Educational Administration Society, 32, 2006, pp.42-60. (in Japanese)
  

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Research Project 1.

Research Project 2.

Research Project 3.

Research Project 4.

The aim of this course is to sketch out the structure of educational management that the future will demand through historical and comparative examinations of the efficacy of Japanese educational management systems. This research is being conducted jointly with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) （2016-2019）as “Research on the efficacy of Japanese educational management systems: Educational specialization in a new schools vision.”

Specifically, the goal of the research was to: unite theoretical and practical approaches to asking how “school autonomy” reforms have changed the realities around educational management; give a historical context to awareness of the role of schools in Japan, their internal organization and external relations, and specialization among faculty and other staff members; clarify “specialization in education”, and likewise, educational management systems and their associated issues envisioned under the guise of “team-based schools”, and examine their efficacy through international comparisons; and analyze all of these issues comprehensively, to present an educational management structure that is capable of accommodating current realities in educational management while also making best use of Japanese characteristics.

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