2024 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 65-78
This paper is a critical review of the “What is the Expertise of Subject-Specific Educational Researchers” symposium, which took place at the 48th Conference of Japan Curriculum Research and Development Association in 2022. Through critiques of five papers summarizing the symposium, three issues were identified: 1) the excessive connection between subject-specific educational research and educational activities and social contributions; 2) the tendency for the focus of discussion to shift from subject-specific educational research itself to subject-specific educational researchers; 3) the lack of vocabulary to describe the expertise of subject-specific educational research due to its methodological dependence on other academic disciplines. Furthermore, in this paper, positioning subject-specific educational research as transdisciplinary research suggests the potential to address these issues not solely by relying on researchers’ narratives but also through academic research.
