Purpose:This article examines the Japanese teaching profession’s position on current school governance reforms in Japan and the difficulties teachers are facing as the reforms progress.Design/Approach/Methods:This ar...Purpose:This article examines the Japanese teaching profession’s position on current school governance reforms in Japan and the difficulties teachers are facing as the reforms progress.Design/Approach/Methods:This article describes how a policy for developing teacher quality standards tends to suppress teacher independence while increasing the heteronomy of the teaching profession.The article discusses how Japan can meet its goal of ensuring“expertise in the teaching profession”by referring to the relationship between“professionalism”and“publicness”in the theories of occupational sociology.Findings:Expertise in the teaching profession is based on a mixture of academic and practical knowledge.The term“educational professionals”should be interpreted to include both“researchers”and“practitioners.”A sustainable governance mechanism for the Japanese teaching profession should be built on a four-way relationship among researchers,practitioners,citizens,and government administrators.Originality/Value:This study provides a critical review of a broad-reaching educational policy and proposes a new approach for restructuring the governance of the Japanese teaching profession.展开更多
Along with the advent of higher educational popularization, the number of graduates will be on the rise with increasingly salientcontradictions between the employment of students and social demands. Therefore, before ...Along with the advent of higher educational popularization, the number of graduates will be on the rise with increasingly salientcontradictions between the employment of students and social demands. Therefore, before the popularization stage of higher education, it is ofprime importance to properly handle the contradiction between employment of students and social demands. From the perspective of the socialdemands, this paper offers a detailed study of seeking the correct reform approaches through the analysis of the social demands for talents andeducational and teaching reform with a view to alleviating the employment pressure of graduates.展开更多
As the social employment situation is getting grueling, the issue of the diffi cult employment of students has become increasinglysalient. It is of prime importance to resolve these issues through educational and teac...As the social employment situation is getting grueling, the issue of the diffi cult employment of students has become increasinglysalient. It is of prime importance to resolve these issues through educational and teaching reform under such urgent situation. Therefore,educational institutions and departments should re-position the teaching model according to employment and social demands to explore afeasible educational and teaching model and provide an effective approach to the increasing employment rate of graduates. From the perspectiveof employment and social demands, this paper offers a study of the educational and teaching model in colleges and universities on this basisand proposes relevant suggestions for the employment of college students with a view to provide concrete help for the alleviation of college students’ employment pressure.展开更多
Disaster is a social phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using t...Disaster is a social phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using the sociological disciplinary framework in a detailed qualitative case study of three schools as they responded to the devastating Gorakha earthquake in 2015 and other disasters in Nepal. This paper considers the three sub-disciplines of sociology: the sociology of disaster, the sociology of education and the sociology of education governance in a development context. These sub-disciplines are nested together to analyse social, political and historical factors and their relationships which are helpful to identify risks and vulnerabilities in the education sector in Nepal. These are the major areas to explore the disaster context and needs of context-specific education acts (hereafter DRR education) to minimise the potential risks of disasters. The article concludes that the social disciplinary framework is significantly useful to analyse DRR education provisions and implications of education governance to mobilise school in disaster preparedness, response and recovery.展开更多
In recent years,social capital has played a crucial role in the field of educational trend and rapid expansion.Education capital,however,is a double-edged sword.On one hand,it plays a good role in the construction of ...In recent years,social capital has played a crucial role in the field of educational trend and rapid expansion.Education capital,however,is a double-edged sword.On one hand,it plays a good role in the construction of learning society and national quality education.On the other hand,it causes serious obstacles and interference to our regional education resources and educational environment because of its own profit-seeking.In order to optimize the integration between education industry and social capital,to make good use of social capital and to promote the brilliant development of education industry,this article has investigated the deepening effect of education capital and the content of governance mechanism,hoping to provide some reference for the optimization and reform in the educational field.展开更多
基金The author(s)disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research,authorship,and/or publication of this article:This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI under grant number JP15K13172.
文摘Purpose:This article examines the Japanese teaching profession’s position on current school governance reforms in Japan and the difficulties teachers are facing as the reforms progress.Design/Approach/Methods:This article describes how a policy for developing teacher quality standards tends to suppress teacher independence while increasing the heteronomy of the teaching profession.The article discusses how Japan can meet its goal of ensuring“expertise in the teaching profession”by referring to the relationship between“professionalism”and“publicness”in the theories of occupational sociology.Findings:Expertise in the teaching profession is based on a mixture of academic and practical knowledge.The term“educational professionals”should be interpreted to include both“researchers”and“practitioners.”A sustainable governance mechanism for the Japanese teaching profession should be built on a four-way relationship among researchers,practitioners,citizens,and government administrators.Originality/Value:This study provides a critical review of a broad-reaching educational policy and proposes a new approach for restructuring the governance of the Japanese teaching profession.
文摘Along with the advent of higher educational popularization, the number of graduates will be on the rise with increasingly salientcontradictions between the employment of students and social demands. Therefore, before the popularization stage of higher education, it is ofprime importance to properly handle the contradiction between employment of students and social demands. From the perspective of the socialdemands, this paper offers a detailed study of seeking the correct reform approaches through the analysis of the social demands for talents andeducational and teaching reform with a view to alleviating the employment pressure of graduates.
文摘As the social employment situation is getting grueling, the issue of the diffi cult employment of students has become increasinglysalient. It is of prime importance to resolve these issues through educational and teaching reform under such urgent situation. Therefore,educational institutions and departments should re-position the teaching model according to employment and social demands to explore afeasible educational and teaching model and provide an effective approach to the increasing employment rate of graduates. From the perspectiveof employment and social demands, this paper offers a study of the educational and teaching model in colleges and universities on this basisand proposes relevant suggestions for the employment of college students with a view to provide concrete help for the alleviation of college students’ employment pressure.
文摘Disaster is a social phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using the sociological disciplinary framework in a detailed qualitative case study of three schools as they responded to the devastating Gorakha earthquake in 2015 and other disasters in Nepal. This paper considers the three sub-disciplines of sociology: the sociology of disaster, the sociology of education and the sociology of education governance in a development context. These sub-disciplines are nested together to analyse social, political and historical factors and their relationships which are helpful to identify risks and vulnerabilities in the education sector in Nepal. These are the major areas to explore the disaster context and needs of context-specific education acts (hereafter DRR education) to minimise the potential risks of disasters. The article concludes that the social disciplinary framework is significantly useful to analyse DRR education provisions and implications of education governance to mobilise school in disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
文摘In recent years,social capital has played a crucial role in the field of educational trend and rapid expansion.Education capital,however,is a double-edged sword.On one hand,it plays a good role in the construction of learning society and national quality education.On the other hand,it causes serious obstacles and interference to our regional education resources and educational environment because of its own profit-seeking.In order to optimize the integration between education industry and social capital,to make good use of social capital and to promote the brilliant development of education industry,this article has investigated the deepening effect of education capital and the content of governance mechanism,hoping to provide some reference for the optimization and reform in the educational field.
