Abstract
This study aims to elucidate the three stages of the institutional establishment process of art education at the Toyama University of Education. First, majority of the fine arts teachers, who received common lessons in fine arts instruction, shifted from normal schools to universities. Similar to many universities, no one is a specialist in art pedagogy. Second, the subjects painting, sculpture, composition, and the theory and history of fine arts were established in the 1964 curriculum. In 1975, art education was added; in 1976, Soichiro Hasegawa moved from the subject sculpture and composition. He continued his research on art education and personal research and production of sculpture. Results demonstrated that academic subjects under art education were formally and substantively fulfilled. Third, the Graduate School of Education and its Major in Art Education were established in 1994 and 1996, respectively, which initiated the institutional foundation of art education at the university.
