ResearchingJapaneseHigher Education
1998 - 2008

Center for the Studies of Higher Education
Nagoya University

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Researching Japanese Higher Education: 1998 – 2008
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CONTENTS
PREFACE1
Editorial Board

SECTION I
JAPANESE HIGHER EDUCATION
Senroku Uehara’s View on Undergraduate Education afterWorld War II in JapanTomoko Torii

5Economies of Scale and Scope in Japanese NationalUniversities
Hidehiro Nakajima, Keith J. Morgan, Tomoko Torii,
Takuo Kominato, and Terumasa Ikeda

33

SECTION II
TEACHING AND LEARNING AT NAGOYA UNIVERSITYHow Class Size Affects Teaching and Learning
Toshiki Nakai

49

Who Enhance Quality of Education?
A Survey Using Student, Faculty and Institutional
Inventories
Toshiki Nakai, Hidehiro Nakajima, andMasahiro Chikada

65

Supporting Faculty Development
A Case of the Center for the Studies of Higher Education
Tatsuya Natsume and Kayo Aoyama

83

SECTION III
DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Mission Possible?
A Self-Study on Mission Driven Research
Terumasa Ikeda

95

Developing Learn with Professor Tips
Kazuhisa Todayama and Masahiro Chikada

113

The Development of a Web-based Course Management
Tool for Faculty Development
Hidehiro Nakajima, Toshiki Nakai, Masahiro Chikada,
Tomoko Torii, and Terumasa Ikeda

129

Development of Seven Suggestions from Professor Tips
Toshiki Nakai

145

Development of Study Tips
Involving First-year Students in the Academic Community
Masahiro Chikada, Kazuhisa Todayama,
Tatsuya Natsume, Masahiro Chikada, andToshiki Nakai

159

FUTURE PROSPECTIVE

181

Kazuhisa Todayama

APPENDIX: Notes on the Establishment of the Center

185

Yoshiko Saitoh

LIST OF AUTHORS

189

EDITORIAL BOARD191

1PREFACE
Editorial Board

This book, Researching Japanese Higher Education: 1998-2008, isbeing published in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of theCenter for the Studies of Higher Education at Nagoya University and forthe purpose of introducing Japanese higher education and its researchstyle to various readers outside of Japan. It is edited in the form of acollection of selected articles originally subscribed to in Japanese bycurrent and former members of the Center. Most of the articles are fromback issues of the Center’s refereed journal entitled Nagoya Journal ofHigher Education. In the case of a current publication articles aretranslated into English for the first time with some updates.
The main part of the book is divided into three sections. The articles inSection I explain characteristics of Japanese higher education. Senroku
Uehara, who studied in the first article, was a university president who madean impact on educational thought on universities after World War II. The
seminar at his laboratory has been famous for producing personnel thatleads the discussion of university education or are active in socialmovements. The second article was a timely publication because itstudied “economies of scale and scope in Japanese national universities” andwas presented just before the semi-privatization (reform into anindependent administrative agency) of Japanese National Universities
on April 2004.
The articles in Section II show the situation and status of teaching andlearning at Nagoya University. One clarifies an effect of class size onteaching and learning while two others discuss how teaching andlearning could be enhanced. The former proposes the collaboration androle sharing among stakeholders such as teachers, students, academic
affairs members, etc; the later examines ways of supporting faculty
development (FD) activities by reviewing the status.

2In Section III collected articles revisit courses of several tool
developments for FD or students’ learning at the Center. The tools
introduced in this section are: a collection of teaching tips, an online
course management tool, suggestions for collaboration and role sharing
and a learning guide for first-year students. Also, there are otherrecently developed tools such as a handbook of curriculum design and afaculty guide to classroom English, which do not appear in this book. As
an informational aid, a note about the course of the establishment of theCenter is included at the end of this book.
Some of the main articles mention that Japanese scenes of FD havebeen limited in teaching and learning, or education at most, of theuniversity. The following Future Prospective points out that FD should
and could have a wider scope that includes research management andcareer development of faculty members. It also gives advice on what theCenter should intend to do throughout the next decade, including
supplying information about Japanese higher education to all parties ofinterest. We hope that this book can play a big role in starting a new ageand trigger further communication with you.

Acknowledgement
Editorial board members appreciate writers and other contributors tothis book: Dr. Yuka Kubota (Research Fellow) and Ms. Kukiko Okada(Research Assistant) who compiled articles, Dr. Bruce Macfarlane (theformer Visiting Professor at the Center; currently at the University ofPortsmouth), Dr. Motoki Fujii (the former Contract Lecturer at theCenter;currentlyatShizuokaUniversity)

whoassistedwithproofreading, Ms. Miho Yamamoto and Ms. Mina Kohjiki (officers of
Academic Affairs and Planning at Nagoya University) who took care ofbudgetary and clerical aspects.
We are appreciative of those who have advised, supported andcollaborated with the Center during its first decade. It is our wish that
this book successfully expresses our gratitude for their contributions.