Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences,Waseda UniversityWaseda University

The Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences is one of ten faculties at Waseda University. It is made up of the following four organizations: the School of Education, the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Teacher Education, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Education. The School of Education also has a Teacher Education Program, which offers teaching qualifications in subjects across the university.

School of Education

The School of Education was opened after the Second World War as the first “open system” school of education at a private university in Japan. Its predecessor was the Higher Normal School. The aim of the School of Education is to uphold its traditions and train highly skilled teachers and produce graduates capable of contributing to society through their ability to create outstanding knowledge in a variety of fields and their ability to communicate this knowledge. The School’s teaching staff is composed of leaders in a wide variety of academic fields, from the arts through to the sciences. One of the major characteristics of the School of Education is the fact that its teachers offer numerous courses that satisfy University Establishment Standards. Each of the following seven departments has its own specialist curriculum: Department of Education, Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Social Studies, Department of Science, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Cultural Sciences.

Graduate School of Education

The Graduate School of Education was established in 1990 and offers research and training in the fields of pedagogy, pedagogical psychology and course education studies (Japanese Language Education, English Language Education, Social Studies Education, and Mathematics Education). In addition to producing teachers who are highly specialized in their respective subjects, the School also trains researchers in the fields of pedagogy, pedagogical psychology and course education studies.

Graduate School of Teacher Education

The Graduate School of Teacher Education is a specialist graduate school that was established in 2008. It offers a curriculum with a focus on practical training in the education workplace, and produces elementary school, junior high school and senior high school teachers with outstanding practical skills in areas such as school management, classroom management and lesson provision. The two graduate courses cooperate and seek to improve the quality of education by utilizing their respective strengths as part of the same graduate school.

Institute for Advanced Studies in Education

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Education develops research activities not just in the narrow sense of education studies, but also with a focus on “education” as a broader concept. Every year it promotes activities by research working groups selected through an internal application process, based on the individual research carried out by members of the Institute. Open lectures and symposiums are held on pressing themes in the front line of the education workplace, and the research results are made available to the general public. Every year the research results are published in the Waseda Review of Education and the Waseda Education Journal in order to create an accumulation of knowledge in the field of education. Moreover, the Graduate School of Teacher Education actively supports academic exchange with overseas research institutions, including a departmental agreement with the Institute of Education, University College London.

Teacher Education Program

The Teacher Education Program is responsible for providing courses for the acquisition of teaching licenses across Waseda University. It also offers librarian and museum curator qualifications. In order to provide more robust support for teacher job-seeking, the Teacher Education Program has examined the establishment of a new system with a view to cooperating with the Tomon Kyoikukai (a Japan-wide society organized by teachers who graduated from Waseda University).