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Suzuki Lab
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A lab that studies school and classroom reform while learning from the voices of people working in schools.

AboutAbout the lab
Reforming schools and classrooms: practice and policy
The Suzuki Lab studies school reform and classroom reform from both the practice side and the policy side.
The lab values an approach of listening to the voices of those involved in school reform and learning from the field.
Building on the field of education, the lab also takes up teacher education and the nature of teachers' professional communities as research themes.
Key terms
- School reform
- Efforts to review and change a school's organization and approach to teaching, carried out together with the people working in the school
- Teacher education
- A research field dealing with the systems that train teachers and the ongoing learning that continues after they become teachers
- Teachers' professional community
- A group in which teachers strengthen their abilities by observing each other's lessons and learning from one another
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The lab studies the practice and policy of reforming schools and classrooms. It aims to create educational research that values listening to the voices of those involved in school reform and learning from the field.
*Illustrative imageStudying Teachers
The lab studies school education practice and policy from theoretical and historical perspectives. Focusing on school teachers in particular, it examines what kind of occupation teaching is, and how teachers build professional competence and keep growing throughout their careers.
*Illustrative imageClassroom Reform and School Reform
The lab believes that classroom reform cannot succeed unless it takes place together with school reform. The focus of reform is to create collaborative learning that involves students in the classroom, teachers in the staff room, school administrators, and even education administrators.
*Illustrative imageProfessionalization of Teaching
The lab pursues the goal of positioning teachers as professionals on a par with doctors and lawyers. The aim is a profession that requires advanced theory and knowledge, involves preparation through graduate school, and continues to build competence throughout life.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYuta Suzuki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Jinego Elementary School 1st grade classroom side” Douglas P. Perkins / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Studying Teachers: “Coloured chalk (cropped)” Niklas Bildhauer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Classroom Reform and School Reform: “Yashima Junior High School staff room 1” Douglas P Perkins / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Professionalization of Teaching: “Education, school, classroom, blackboard, teacher Fortepan 3612” FOTO:Fortepan — ID 3612: Adományozó/Donor: Unknown. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (若松研究室): “Close-up of a microphone” Dennis Hill from The OC, So. Cal. / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (北村研究室): “35mm cinema release print” LDGE / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (弓山研究室): “Jizo Statue and Stone Monuments by the Roadside Yanagikubo” Harwell1212 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (永原研究室): “Kantenmodell Quader 7249” Welt-der-Form / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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