(1) Graduate School of Education & Human Development, Nagoya University, 464-8601 Furocho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan;(2) International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 610-1192, Oeyama–cho3-2 Goryo, Nishkyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan
Abstract:
This paper first reviews the literature on school-university partnerships to evaluate and describe challenges and paradigms
of Japanese approaches to school-university partnerships in theory and practice. Secondly, it clarifies the role of three-year
school-university partnership between the Nagoya University and the Tokai City Board of Education in the central Japan for
creating an effective environment in schools for teachers to learn from each other and for developing more learning-centered
education that focuses on the real needs of students. From this study it can be claimed that more effective relationships
between Japanese school teachers and university researchers can be established through developing collaborative a school-based
research framework especially through the process of jugyou kenkyuu (lesson study).