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 in teacher education at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Her research interests include how to support teachers’ professional learning focused on student learning in Japan and abroad. Her expertise is in sociological analysis of the role of teacher educators and foreign transfer in Japanese educational models such as Lesson Study and Tokkatsu. She grew up in the US and worked in Indonesia to support community development and education programs. In addition, she has led several ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) and citizenship education projects such as the Toyota Foundation (https://toyotafound.my.salesforce-sites.com/psearch/JoseiDetail?name=D20-N-0084).