Obtainable Teaching Licenses
Specialized Certificate (*) for teaching in a kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, or specialneeds school
* In order to obtain the specialized certificate, one needs to have the basic qualifications specified in the Law for a Teacher’s Certificate, Article 5 (appendix 1).

The Graduate School of Education offers specialized education and research in fields related to the theory and practice of primary, secondary, and specialneeds education on the foundation of a university education. Moreover, we have a program in place where we accept in-service teachers in an effort to provide learning and research opportunities for schoolteachers who are required to have superior qualities and abilities as specialists.

The Graduate School of Education comprises the following two courses and 11 majors: Science of Education Course (school education major) and Specialized Area Studies  Course (Japanese education, social studies education, mathematics education, science education, music education, art education, health and physical education, technical education, home economics education, and English education majors). In the School Education Course, a new discipline of Clinical Psychology was added to the existing Pedagogy, Educational Psychology and Special Needs Education disciplines. The Graduate School features Education Practice Research and Classroom Teaching Research as required subjects in addition to Theme Research. 

In this discipline, issues that face school education are dealt with and researched empirically from the viewpoints of educational philosophy, education history, education methodology (including curriculum), moral education, educational administration, sociology of education, and lifelong education. Moreover, advanced practical leadership is developed through a thorough investigation of educational issues that are emerging in local communities.

This discipline aims to develop higher student expertise in educational guidance, student guidance, and educational counseling in school education. In particular, students, who are in-service teachers, are encouraged to acquire the skills and ability to provide, what school psychology calls “primary and secondary support services.” In the third support service, they are to acquire the skills to provide a team service and to collaborate with students’ parents.

The Discipline also offers a curriculum geared to the acquisition of a certificate for school psychologist to those who wish not only to obtain greater expertise in educational and student guidance, but also to become a school counselor.

The Discipline of Clinical Psychology aims to develop people with specialized knowledge and skills who can appropriately handle psychological problems from the perspective of clinical psychology. This discipline has been designated a Category 1 Designated School: the Japanese Certification Board for Clinical Psychologist grants eligibility to students from a designated school to take the qualification examination to become a clinical psychologist. While providing students opportunities to further their learning and conduct research in clinical psychology, the Discipline of Clinical Psychology develops the qualities to play an active role as clinical psychologists by providing practical training in psycho-educational counseling rooms and outside cooperative organizations that accept our students as trainees.

The discipline conducts theoretical and practical research corresponding to the demands of specialneeds education centering on the education, psychology, development, and teaching methodology of disabled children. The discipline aims to cultivate educators and leaders equipped with research and practical capabilities equal to their role as promoters of special needs education in Japan. 

Centering on the teaching of Japanese, the Japanese education major offers subjects in the disciplines of Japanese language education, Japanese linguistics, Japanese literature, and Chinese literature. The major provides students opportunities to learn subjects in these disciplines in an integrated manner while deepening their specialized areas of study. By doing so, the Course aims to develop people with high expertise in promoting Japanese linguistics or Japanese language education in a creative manner.

The Course aims to deepen and extend the student’s knowledge and scholarship with a basis in each field of teaching social studies, history, geography, politics, economics, sociology, ethics and philosophy; research ability in their specialized field; and creativity in theories and application. By doing so, the Course strives to develop promoters and leaders in education research in the field of teaching social studies.

Centering on mathematics education, the mathematics education major offers mathematical subjects such as algebra, geometry, topology, and analysis. Students in this major develop research and practical abilities by conducting theoretical and practical research on these subjects.

In order to develop experts who practice science education, the Course offers to students opportunities to obtain the latest technical knowledge and research methods in natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology). While conducting their research, students are exposed to the latest trends in science education and acquire the ability to implement science education with scientific methods obtained through natural science research as a foundation.

The Course aims to develop the student’s research and practical abilities in music education by comprehensively and professionally investigating theories and expressions in various fields of music and teaching and conducting research on teaching methods.

The Course develops the student’s research and practical abilities in art education through more specialized education and research on art teaching, painting, sculpture, design, craft, art theories, and art history.

The health and physical education major comprises the following disciplines: Teaching of Health and Physical Education that investigates the purposes and contents of health and physical education; Physical Education that discusses basic issues related to physical education; Kinematics that analyzes physical movements scientifically; and School Health that addresses building health of students. The Course aims to develop the student’s creative and practical abilities, which are founded on high, versatile academic knowledge, by providing up-to-date, theoretical and practical education and research on the aforementioned disciplines.

The home economics education major comprises the teaching of home economics and its background disciplines, such as food science, nutritional science, cooking science, and housing science. While enhancing professional insight on home economics education through research in these disciplines, the Course aims to develop the student’s overall research ability and practical ability in home economics education.

The Course offers up-to-date theoretical and practical research on teaching techniques, teaching engineering, machine engineering, electrical engineering, metal engineering, lumber engineering, and information engineering. By doing so, it develops educators and leaders with research and practical abilities that are required of technical education promoters.

The Course aims to enhance the student’s research and practical abilities to the level required of promoters of English education by conducting up-to-date, theoretical and practical education and research on the teaching of the English language, English linguistics, and English and American literature.