Abstract
In April 2012, in conjunction with Aichi University of Education, the Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University began a new doctoral program in the Graduate School of Education titled Cooperative Doctoral Course in Subject Development. We thought that we needed to develop systematic curricula by combining three different but related fields together: (a) learning of student’s major subject (e.g., learning science theoretically); (b) learning of how to teach his or her major subject (e.g., how to teach science to students); and (c) learning of pedagogy and education in general (e.g., learning what education should be). The aim of this Japanese-type Ed.D. Program is to integrate theory and practice. The author proposes that teaching of subject, or learning of how to teach students their major content courses, should be closely related to the other two academic areas. This strong link among the three areas will contribute greatly to university students who aim at becoming teachers.
