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Schoolteacher Training Course |
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Liberal Arts Bachelor of Education Program |
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Integrated Research Center for Educational Practice, Faculty of Education |
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Attached Schools |
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| Schoolteacher Training Course |
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The Schoolteacher Training Course, consisting of the following three sub-courses and taking a broad view of general issues in school education, aims as its primary mission to develop highly qualified schoolteacher candidates with ample practical abilities for elementary, junior high, and special support schools. |
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| School Education Course - School Education Major |
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Students are offered a variety of courses to take in the areas of pedagogy and educational psychology, two major disciplines that provide the foundations of educational activities at school across the boundaries of subjects. Completion of the course grants its graduates first-class teacher's licenses for elementary and junior high schools. |
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Japanese Language Education Major |
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Social Studies Education Major |
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Mathematics Education Major |
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Science Education Major |
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Musical Education Major |
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Art Education Major |
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Health and Physical Education Major |
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Human Ecology Education Major |
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Technology Education Major |
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English Education Major |
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In each of the ten majors, students take one particular elementary⁄junior high school subject and learn and acquire the academic knowledge and practical skills that will provide foundations of its teaching.
Completion of the course grants its graduates first-class teacher's licenses for elementary and junior high schools. |
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| Special Support Education Course - Special Support Education Major |
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Students specialize in learning and studying the development and the educational needs of mentally and⁄or physically challenged pupils and students.
Completion of this course grants its graduates a first-class teacher's license for special support schools and, as its prerequisite, a first-class elementary school teacher's license. |
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- The Schoolteacher Training Course allows students to study a wide scope of practical issues in school education ranging from elementary school to junior high school to school for special educational needs.
- Fulfillment of the requirements for graduation grants teacher's licenses for two school types.
- Students will gain greater confidence in becoming a teacher through systematic learning based on the curriculum.
- Small-class teaching⁄learning provides students with abundant opportunities for positive thinking and experience-based learning.
- Each of the three sub-courses has its own characteristic curriculum, which will help to develop teachers with their own areas of expertise.
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School Education Major: Developmental Psychology |
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Japanese Language Education Major:
Methodology of Teaching Secondary School Japanese I |
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Social Studies Education Major: Introduction to Japanese history |
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Mathematics Education Major:
Advanced Course for Mathematics Education |
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Science Education Major:
Methodology of Teaching Secondary School Science I |
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Musical Education Major: Compositional Discipline I |
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Art Education Major: Foundation of Drawing a & b |
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Health and Physical Education Major: Methodology of Secondary School Health and Physical Education (Physical Education I) |
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Human Ecology Education Major: Home Management |
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Technology Education Major: Technology Education Seminar I |
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English Education: English Conversation I |
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Special Support Education Major:
Outline of Education for Children with Disabilities |
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| < Qualifications and Licenses Obtainable from the Programs > |
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Obtainable qualifications and licenses include first-class kindergarten, as well as elementary, junior high, and senior high school teacher's licenses, a teacher's license for special support schools, a child care worker's license, curatorship, a social education officer's license, qualification to become a social welfare officer, and a Japan Sports Association-authorized sports instructor's license (students are exempted from getting credits for common subjects). |
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| < Graduates' Career Choices > |
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Graduates' career choices include teaching at preschools, kindergartens, elementary, junior high and senior high schools, and schools for students with special needs as well, in many such places as Tochigi, Chiba, Fukushima, Tokyo, Mie, Yokohama, Kawasaki, and other prefectures and cities. Many graduates also choose to work in education-related corporate-industrial sectors, firms like TKC; and major financial institutions including Tochigi Bank, Ashikaga Bank, Sompo Japan Insurance, and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance. Public-sector institutions and offices such as Japan Post; the Utsunomiya Municipal Government Office and other local⁄national government agencies, and graduate schools as well, are also included in the graduates' choices. |
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| Liberal Arts Bachelor of Education Program |
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In view of the importance of developing the student's post-graduate career designing abilities, this program aims to develop cultured human resources who will be able to contribute to society based on such practical qualifications and groundings as problem identification⁄solving abilities, independence, creativity, flexibility, and self-development. |
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- Students are encouraged to aim at self-development through flexible selection of courses based on their own plans for learning and studying.
- Students are allowed to study in many different ways through interdisciplinary learning by effective use of the six study areas.
- The categories of Self-development Courses (Curriculum Designing, Basic Ability Development, and Practical Ability Development) will provide students with foundations of further learning and help to make flexible selections of courses of study.
- Students will be assisted with a portfolio system to keep comprehensive records of their learning histories, which will be effectively attained by the use of the Faculty of Education's e-Learning system.
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| Six research areas allow students to study wide and deep. |
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Environment Creation • |
| Students learn about how human beings develop and how to understand their inner self. |
Students learn about how local communities should be created from the viewpoint of environmental science. |
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| Students learn about the structure of language and language-based cultures. |
Students learn about how human beings should cultivate their sensibilities through artistic activities. |
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| Students learn about various activities in society while thinking about what a local community should be like. |
Students learn about how one should develop their body and keep it healthy through sports and a healthy way of life. |
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Human Development Area:
Seminars in Studies on Clinical Problems in Education II, Psychotherapy II |
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Environment Creation Area:
Environmental Education, Studies on Living Environments I & II |
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Language and Culture Area:
Introduction to Japanese Literature A, Introduction in English Linguistics |
Art and Culture Area:
Keyboard Instruments I, Industrial Art Theories |
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Regional and Public Area:
Introduction to Social Welfare Studies, Introduction to Economics |
Sports and Health Area:
Exercise Physiology, Studies on Sports Instruction |
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Curatorship, a social education officer's license, qualification to become a social welfare officer, a Japan Sports Association-authorized sports instructor's license (students are exempted from getting credits for common subjects), and a first-class senior high school teacher's licenses in three subjects (civics, calligraphy, and health and physical education) |
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A wide range of career choices are available such as business firms, public service (particularly local enterprises and local public service), education-related organizations (except high school teachers and school personnel), or the student can go on to graduate school. |
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| Integrated Research Center for Educational Practice, Faculty of Education |
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The Integrated Research Center for Educational Practice is comprised of three departments: educational engineering, clinical problem in education, and regional cooperation (school support center). In cooperation with education-related organizations both on and off campus, the Research Center pursues theoretical and empirical studies on practical and clinical problems in education which are aimed at teacher training and education and gives instruction in this field. |
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| Attached Schools |
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In order to promote practical studies on education, students are provided with opportunities to practice teaching at Utsunomiya University's attached educational institutions: the kindergarten, the elementary school, the junior high school, and the special support school. Students in the Schoolteacher Training Course practice teaching at one of these educational institutions as part of the requirements for graduation. |
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