Overview

Pesident:Professor Hidenori Fujita　（Kyoei University)
Secretary-GeneralProfessor:Shigeo Kodama (the University of Tokyo)

Association Office

Office AddressU.K's Bil. 2-29-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo113-0033, Japan
Telephone81-(0)3-3818-2505
Facsimile81-(0)3-3816-6898
E-mail jsseoak.ocn.ne.jp
Postal account 00160-9-44133

How to join our Society

If you want to join our Society, please contact with our office. We send back you an entry form.
Membership fee for individual and organization member amounts to \10,000 per year. Besides, registration fee \3,000 at the time of entry.

Journal

Kyouikugaku Kenkyu（Journal of Educational Studies）

（4 times per year.(March, June, September, December））
We accept papers from registered member all year around. Please refer to our subscription rule for more details.

Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook

Call for Papers
Editorial board of Japanese Journal of Educational Studies
Chief-editor: Toshihiko Yoneda

Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, No. 7

Call for Papers

Educational Studies in Japan (ESJ) welcomes articles that are expected to make positive contribution to the advancement of the field of education. For the forthcoming issue, No. 7, we have chosen a special theme, Educational Implications of Natural Disaster. Prospective authors are encouraged to prepare and submit papers that relate to this theme.

The March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, along with the nuclear power plant disaster, call for reflection on several aspects of education and educational studies in any country. Hence, the 7th Edition of the International Yearbook of Educational Studies in Japan　will focus on the following special theme: Educational Implications of Natural Disaster. The aspects to be taken up would range from training for pupils’ safety, at the most practical level, to a thorough reconsideration of the basic assumptions of modern educational studies, at the most abstract. More specifically, prospective contributors to the next issue are expected to discuss, analyze and/or make learned recommendations on, topics with educational implications for natural disasters such as:

  1. Safety education for pupils at school in the face of natural and/or other disasters with special reference to earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear power plant failures.
  2. The development and implementation of an environmental studies subject organized from the dual perspective of nature’s destruction of human beings as well as human beings’ destruction of nature.
  3. The development of a school subject dealing with the safety of future social life from the point of view of national policy and international cooperation.
  4. Reflections on the assumptions held by educational psychology or philosophy concerning the influence of disastrous experiences on human development.
  5. Reflections on the scientific world view of uniformitarianism* (vis-à-vis catastrophism) as the basis for several branches of modern educational studies.

* The theory (or ideology) of uniformity of action in the forces and processes of inorganic nature. The above are no more than a few examples. Any educational reflections on topics that derive directly or indirectly from the recent disaster are welcome. Among others, recommended are learned analyses, not journalistic reports, of facts concerning school-children and schools under catastrophic conditions. The special theme will hopefully provide a unique occasion to examine the degree of preparedness of education in Japan for something virtually unanticipated.

Manuscript Submission

ESJ welcomes papers on this special topic, as well as those on general topics of education. The following are the guidelines for article submission. Prospective contributors of a paper on the special topic are asked to indicate this in its introduction. Articles should be written in English and sent to the JSSE by electric submission (jsseoak.ocn.ne.jp). They should be written within 6,000 words with summaries of around 300 words. Contributors whose native language is not English are required to have their manuscripts revised with the assistance of those whose native language is English. Prospective authors are also asked to provide up to 5 keywords at the top of their paper.
The Editorial Board of Educational Studies in Japan would like to ask the contributors to please follow the following format in your paper.

  1. Please affix * to the right shoulder of the author’s name for which a footnote on the first page shall indicate the author’s institutional affiliation as well as his/her e-mail address.
  2. The abstract of the paper then follows, for which a 5-space margin should be placed on both sides.
  3. Please use Arabic numbers for sections of the paper.
  4. Please follow the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style. If you have additional notes, please follow the system of endnotes. Endnotes will be inserted between the main body and references.
  5. If you use books or articles written in languages other than English or Japanese, please indicate the original language of the publication at the end of each reference as shown in the example below.

Huang, Ji (1982). Philosophy of Education, Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press [published in Chinese].

The non-JERA members contributing are required, in principle, to take up topics such as those related to education in Japan, its comparison with those of other countries, and theoretical reflections on educational issues for Japan.
In addition to research papers, ESJ accepts research notes. Being concise introductory analyses of historical or contemporary sources of educational interest, these notes may discuss topics such as educational theory, the history of educational studies, or the current state of education in Japan.
For both papers and research notes, figures, notes, and references should be included in the word count.
All articles should be received by September 30.

Main Activities

Annual meeting and general conference(to be held once a year)
The annual meeting of 1999 will be held from September 3rd to 5th at Tamagawa University.

Research committees for special issues（each committee organize public discussion occasions and symposium several times per year）

Education based on special needs and School reform

  1. Trends and Tasks of「Clinical Pedagogy」
  2. Causal Analysis of recent school destruction phenomenon and educational response to it.
  3. Peace Education, Peace culture
  4. How to understand children now a day
  5. Curriculum standard and its implementation
  6. Structuring School and Classroom

Regional Research Activities（arranged and carried out by each Regional Committee of Hokkaido,Tohoku,Tokyo,Chubu,Kinki, Chugoku-shikoku, Kyuushu-okinawa）

Outline of the Society

Founded in 1941. Number of registrated members at May 31st 1999 is 2,920　as individual members and 340 as organization members. Among organization members, 255 are Universities and Research Institutes and 85 are bookstores.