Graduate School of Education

Education, a comprehensive discipline concerning the essence, purpose, content, method, and systems of education, is becoming an empirical and practical social science pursuing educational and childcare phenomena from various aspects, with increasingly interdisciplinary tendencies. Various issues arising in society and at school sites cannot be resolved unless education collaborates with neighboring disciplines. In this department, with the aim of fostering educators and researchers sincerely addressing the essential issues of education and childcare, we have established a unique educational system.

In this department, a faculty specializing in areas such as educational thought (history), history of education, and educational psychology is available, enhancing the research of the requisite basic abilities for the study of education, enabling more profound study into individual problems and interests. In recent years, the research discussion is becoming more vibrant with the addition of graduate students aiming to become researchers away from the field of education, childcare, and nursing, as well as international students from neighboring countries.

Our professorship has strong ties with the field of educational practice, and researchers who are active at the forefront of each specialized field will guide practical research approaches. This includes educational content and methods, lifelong education including correspondence education, early childhood education and childcare considering kindergarten and nursery facilities and parental support, developmental support in education sites, and inclusive education envisioning vocational independence of individuals with special educational needs.

In the Doctoral program of the Graduate School of Education, if you have acquired a first-class license as a foundation, you can get a specialized teaching license by earning the required credits. The types of licenses are diverse, and as follows. 　Preschool teacher specialty license, elementary school teacher specialty license, junior high school teacher specialty license (Japanese language, social studies, math, science, music, art, health and physical education, English), high school teacher specialty license (Japanese language, geography/history, civics, math, science, music, art, health and physical education, English), special support school teacher specialty license (intellectual, physical, health impairments).