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Associate Professor : KUSANAGI Kanako N
Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
Employment History
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2025-
- Lecturer, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2023-2025
- 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 an Associate Professor in Teacher Education in the Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Japan. Her research explores how teachers’ professional learning, particularly learning closely connected to students’ learning, can be supported across diverse national, institutional, and school contexts.
Her interests include the sociological study of teacher educators’ roles, school-based professional learning, and the cross-national transfer and recontextualization of Japanese educational approaches, including Lesson Study and Tokkatsu. Having grown up in the United States and worked in Indonesia in the fields of community development and education, she brings an international and comparative perspective to her work.
She has led and contributed to projects on diversity, inclusion, and citizenship education, including work supported by the Toyota Foundation (D20-N-0084). She is currently involved in a Japan–UK collaborative project, International Comparison of Lesson Study for Social Justice: Ensuring Student Diversity and Inclusion in Collaborative Learning, which brings together schools and researchers to explore diversity, inclusion, and collaborative learning through Lesson Study.
She also serves as Honorary General Secretary of the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS).