Faculty Collaboration in Teaching:

A Proposal of “Collaborative Teaching”

Abstract

Various efforts for teaching improvement are introduced in recent Japan. The purpose of this article is to study faculty collaboration in teaching as an attempt because the concept of faculty collaboration in teaching is still ambiguous and its situation is not widespread. In the first section, college teaching is treated as an organized activity and faculty collaboration in teaching is positioned in the stream of teaching improvement. In the second section, the limitation of curriculum research in arguing faculty collaboration in teaching is shown and the concept of “collaborative teaching” is given. In the third section, research trend of “collaborative teaching” in the United States is surveyed and in the last section, the research direction of “collaborative teaching” in the future is provided with an analytical framework.