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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 in teacher education at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Her research focuses on how teachers’ professional learning—particularly learning oriented toward students’ learning—can be supported in diverse national and institutional contexts.
Her expertise lies in the sociological analysis of teacher educators’ roles and the processes of cross-national transfer and recontextualization of Japanese educational models, including Lesson Study and Tokkatsu. She brings an international perspective to her work, having grown up in the United States and worked in Indonesia in the field of community development and education programs.
In addition to her academic research, she has led several projects related to Education for diversity and inclusion and citizenship education, including projects funded by the Toyota Foundation (D20-N-0084).