Current Status:
Professor of Sociology of Education, Division of Education,
International Christian University.
He received his Ph.D. in international development
education from Stanford University in 1978. Before
moving to International Christian University in April
2003, he had taught sociology of education as an associate
professor at Nagoya University for 10 years and as
a professor at the University of Tokyo for 17 years.
At the University of Tokyo he was a university senate
member for 9 years and a dean of Graduate School of
Education from 2000 to 2003. He was a visiting scholar
at School of Education, Stanford University (by JSPS
grant, 1978) and at Graduate School of Education, University
of Pennsylvania (as a ACLS Fellow, 1983-84). He served
as a chief editor of the official Journal of the Japanese
Association of Educational Sociology (1992-94), as
a chairperson of the organizing committee of the 50th
Anniversary of the Japanese Association of Educational
Sociology (1998-99) and its international conference
held in August 1999 and as the President of Japanese
Association of Educational Sociology (2000-03). He
also served as a member of the national task force
of education reform, an advisory body for the Prime
Minister in 2000. He has also served for many government
agencies and chaired several research committees including
international comparative surveys on youth problems
conducted by the Management and Coordination Agency
of the Government and the comparative survey on Professional
Actions and Culture of Teaching (PACT) in UK, China
and Japan as a director of the Japanese PACT research
team.
His major publications include Values and Attitudes
of High School Students: A Study of Development of
Occupational Self (in Japanese, Toyota Foundation,
1982); Child, School and Society: Irony of the Affluent
Society (in Japanese, Univ. of Tokyo Press, 1991);
Education Reform: Building the School in the Symbiotic
Society (in Japanese, Iwanami Shoten, 1997. This book
has received high reputation, about 100,000 copies
were sold by now and its Chinese version was published
from the Chinese Educational Publication Co. in 2001);
Culture and Society: Distinction, Structuration and
Reproduction (co-authored, in Japanese, Yushindou Publishing
Co., 1993. This is one of his major academic work along
the line of his dissertation thesis and have facilitated
the following research in the field in Japan and repeatedly
cited); Culture and Society (in Japanese, Housou-Daigaku
Publishing Co., 1996); Sociology of Education (in Japanese,
Housou-Daigaku Publishing Co., 1998); Civic Society
and Education (in Japanese, Seori Shobo, 2000); How
to Design School Reform in a New Era (in Japanese,
Iwanami Shoten, 2001); Family and Gender: Organizing
Principles of Education and Society (in Japanese, Seori
Shobo, 2003). He co-authored, edited and co-edited
many other books, Journals and research reports.
There are about 10 English articles,
including "A
Crisis of Legitimacy in Japanese Education: Meritocracy
and Cohesiveness," in J.J. Shields ed., Japanese
Schooling: Patterns of Socialization, Equality, and
Political Control (Pennsylvania State University Press,
1989); "Educational Policy Dilemmas as Historic
Constructions," in B. Finkelstein et al. eds.,
Transcending Stereotypes: Discovering Japanese Culture
and Education (Intercultural Press, 1991); and “Education
Reform and Education Politics in Japan,” in the American
Sociologist, Fall 2000. He also published many academic
articles in Japanese, about ten of which are among
those that have been repeatedly cited in the Japanese
academic circle. The articles titled "On Paradigm
Shifts in the Sociology of Education" and "Theories
of Cultural and Social Reproduction" are two of
the most frequently cited articles.
His current research covers such themes/areas as education
reform and education politics; justice and publicness
in education; citizenship education and social organization;
culture of teaching; life style and value orientation
of child and youth; vocational/technical education
and the transition from school to work; social and
cultural reproduction; and institutionalization of
education, culture and society.
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