Steering Committee
Director
Yuki HONDA
Professor
Division of Social Sciences in Education
My study focuses on relations between education, work and family. Since early 1990s, Japanese society has witnessed a conspicuous growth of discrepancies in relations between these three social systems, which include dysfunctions of ‘transition from school to work’, escalation of pressures on responsibilities of parents to educate their children, widening inequality in educational opportunities, and expansion of poverty among families with children. I explore causes and solutions to these problems, especially necessary reforms of education and new roles of the government and civil movements.
Deputy Director
Misako NUKAGA
Professor
Division of Social Sciences in Education
I am interested in the impact of globalization on families, schools, and children’s identity and ability formation. I have conducted ethnographic research on Japanese families in the U.S. and foreign families in Japan, focusing on internationally mobile children. I look at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, class, and academic achievement in school routines and family educational strategies. I am also conducting international comparisons of multicultural education and citizenship education through surveys of schools in Japan and the U.S. I am currently researching how education and society can be inclusive of minorities.
Yuto KITAMURA
Professor
Division of Curriculum Development
I have been conducting researches on education policy in developing countries, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. In recent years, I have been mainly focusing on Cambodia and currently conducting several research projects, including a student tracer study in basic education, a teacher training study, and a study on the development of higher education. I also conduct researches on the internationalization of higher education in Asian countries. Through these researchers, I have been exploring roles of education for creating more democratic society and examining how education needs to be considered as public good.
Hideto FUKUDOME
Professor
Division of University Management and Policy Studies
My research interest lies in historical and comparative study of higher education, particularly, American higher education. Although American higher education might be the model for higher education reform in other countries, I am interested in it because American colleges and universities are dynamic and have developed with great diversity. Their histories include many attractive themes for considering the question, “What are colleges and universities?” My research interest extends to diverse areas of higher education: undergraduate curriculum, academic governance, academic professions, and graduate education. I approach these areas with historical and comparative perspectives, which can help us broaden our thinking of higher education. I am looking forward to working with many students who believe colleges and universities are important to our society and culture.
Chiaki ISHIGURO
Associate Professor
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
Center for Research and Development of Higher Education
My research interests focus on creativity, art education, and learning activities. I explore the process of creative learning through a wide range of research approaches, including the development of psychometric methods, the examination of developmental processes through cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys in school settings, the evaluation of educational practices and methods inside and outside schools, and the comparison of educational data across diverse cultures. I aim to apply these findings to the improvement of educational practices. Currently, I am conducting research to promote evidence-based educational improvement and to support the realization of each learner’s potential.
Katsushige KATAYAMA
Associate Professor
Division of History and Philosophy of Education
My current research interests lie in the educational implications of political and moral philosophy. More specifically, my research explores the possibilities and limits of citizenship and moral education in a liberal, democratic, and plural society. From this educational perspective, I approach what John Rawls calls the problem of political liberalism: How is it possible that there may exist over time a stable and just society of free and equal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable though incompatible religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines?
Publications
- Katayama, K. (2003) Is the Virtue Approach to Moral Education Viable in a Plural Society?, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 37.2, pp. 325-338. Reprinted in: J. Dunne and P. Hogan (eds.) (2004) Education and Practice: Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing).
Satoshi Usami
Associate Professor
Division of Educational Psychology
My general interests are developing and applying statistical methods for behavioral science. Methodologically, my current lines of research include (a) latent growth curve modeling for evaluating within-person changes and its individual differences, (b) developing and investigating the unified framework for longitudinal models to examine reciprocal relations between longitudinally observed variables, and (c) within-person variability score-based causal inference for joint effects of time-varying treatments. In addition, I am collaborating with substantive researchers on a number of topics relating to educational, psychological and medical research.
Tomonori ICHIYANAGI
Associate Professor
Division of Professional Development of Teachers
Full-time Faculty
Rei SUDOH
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
I am interested in inclusive education, especially for ethnolinguistic minorities in multilingual societies. In my previous research, I have conducted fieldwork in developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in Timor-Leste, to reveal the dynamism and the structure of language of instruction issue in classroom. Asia-Pacific region has a unique characteristic not only in the multilingual settings where about half of the world’s languages exist, but also in the turbulent era due to the recent accelerated globalization. Through my research based on this region focusing on ethnolinguistic minorities, I would like to explore how education can be no one left behind in society with people from diverse backgrounds.
Please consult this page (https://researchmap.jp/reisudoh) for my curriculum vitae.
Publications
- Sudoh, R. (2025). “A study of mother tongue as a language of instruction according to official UNESCO documents: the core role of mother tongue and its evolution,” Journal of International Development Studies, 33(3). (Now printing.)
- Sudoh, R. (2024). “A Study on the Structure of the Language of Instruction Issue in Timor-Leste: Focusing on Local People’s “Eclecticism” in Language Choice,” Comparative Education, 68, pp.23-45. (In Japanese)
- Sudoh, R. (2022). “Obstructing Factors in the Scaling-up of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (EMBLI) in Timor-Leste: A Policy Process Analysis,” Comparative Education, 64, pp.24-46. (In Japanese)
Project Faculty
Yuki UENO
Project Associate Professor
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
My research focuses on the structure, function, and development of resilience, a psychological trait that facilitates recovery from psychological maladjustment. In particular, I examine the effects of resilience on health and performance in terms of its interaction with environmental factors in a large cross-sectional, longitudinal sample of Japanese. Using these findings, I develop the effectiveness of intervention programs to improve resilience.
- Ueno, Y., Hirano, M., & Oshio. A. (2020). The development of resilience in Japanese adults: A two-wave latent change model. Health Psychology Open, 7, 1-7.
- Ueno, Y., Takahashi, A., & Oshio, A. (2019). Relationship between sensory-processing sensitivity and age in a large cross-sectional Japanese sample. Heliyon, 5, e02508.
Hideto INAGAKI
Project Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
Toshihiko ASAKAWA
Project Lecturer
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
Researchers
Emiri SHIBAYAMA
Project Researcher
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
Sota FUKUSHIMA
Project Researcher
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
Chisato HAYASHI
Project Researcher
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
Takeru INAMURA
Research Assistant
Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research
In my research, I examine how learners construct their own mathematical concepts through my classroom teaching practices. In particular, I am interested in the naive problem-solving strategies used for non-routine problems that are unfamiliar to them and allow for a variety of strategies, and how these strategies contribute to the construction of mathematical concepts.
Administrative Staff
Emi KANAYAMA
Kotoe TAMURA
Collaborative Researcher
[External Collaborators]
Masahisa Sato
Professor
Faculty of Environmental Studies Department of Environmental Management and Sustainabilty, Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University
Tetsuya Kawamoto
Associate Professor
Faculty of Letters, Kokushikan University
Kanako Kusanagi
Associate Professor
School of Education, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
Moegi Saito
Lecturer
Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of the Sacred Heart
Yuka Matsumoto
Reporter, Journalist
NHK WORLD-JAPAN, Hamers Co., Ltd.
LIU Jing
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Educatio and Faculty of Education, Tohoku University
Dr. Wesley Teter
UNESCO Senior Specialist
Ichiro Hidaka
Associate Professor
Institute of General Education, Showa Women’s University
Masamichi Sugama
Principal of Senior High School
Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Kaho Suga
Principal of Junior High School
Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Kazuki Uchida
Teacher
Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Kazune Utsunomiya
Teacher
Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Daisuke Numa
Teacher
Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Masato Ishii
Teacher
Jiyunomori Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
Kayo Matsushita
Professor
Kyoto University of The Arts
[Affiliated Professor in UTokyo]
Kiyoshi Izumi
Professor
Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering
Kuniyoshi Sakai
Professor
Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Kaori Fujita
Professor
Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering,
Yuhei Yamauchi
Professor
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies
Yoshiharu Yamamoto
Visiting Professor
Graduate School of Education
Takeshi Okada
Professor Emeritus
Graduate School of Education
Tomoka Shirayama
Technical Specialist
General Technical Division (Basic Experimental Chemistry), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences
Kazuki SAWADA
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) / Graduate School of Education
