Graduate School of Education

　In 2007, the Graduate School of Education established a Center for International Education and Pedagogical Research. The center’s main activities entail 1) comparing education in various foreign countries, 2) cooperating in international education, and 3) providing Japanese language instruction to foreign children.

　As part of the center’s efforts to compare educational practices abroad, affiliated elementary school teachers and high school teachers in Indonesia, Ghana, and Cambodia, together with on-site instructors, graduate students, and undergraduates, implement class work and perform comparative research on the state of children in these countries, while performing exchanges between the schools.



　(Left) Affiliated high school teachers lead a class at an Indonesian high shool
　(Center)Ghana University for Teachers
　(Right) Affiliated middle shool teachers lead a class at an Indonesian middle shool


　In addition, in February 2008, an instructor exchange was carried out through an agreement to jointly create teaching materials and exchange technology with the Teacher’s College NIE in Cambodia.

（１）President of the Cambodia Teacher’s College NIE in March 2008 (center) （２） As part of other activities, some graduate course instructors engage in an international educational tie-up with Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan. （３） As part of its efforts to educate children, activities are undertaken periodically to support Japanese language instruction for foreign children.