Our Faculty
Lecturer. KUSANAGI Kanako N
Lecturer of Teacher Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
Employment History
- Lecturer, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2023-
- Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo, 2019-2023
- Project Researcher, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo, 2015-2019
Educational History
- Ph.D. in Education, UCL Institute of Education, 2019
- MSc. in Comparative and International Education, the University of Oxford, 2008
- B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999
Kanako N. Kusanagi is a Lecturer of Teacher Education at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Her research interest is how to support teachers’ professional learning centered on student learning both in Japan and abroad. Her expertise is the sociological analysis of foreign transfer in Japanese education models such as Lesson Study and Tokkatsu. She has been working in Indonesia since 2004 to support community development projects and educational programs in Java, Aceh, and West Timor. In addition, she has been leading several ESD (Education for Sustainable Development)-related projects.