What is the Liberal Education in the Teacher Training Institution?

― thinking about the problem on the bases of the discussion by C.E.Silberman and M.L.Borrowman

Abstract

  In Japan, the institutes of teacher education are being involved in “the storm of reform”. Most of the institutions are presenting the plans of reform, but they tend to adopt apparently the new trend to neglect the most important problem. The problem is “In the research and education in the institutions of teacher education is enriched and fills the function of liberal education ?”

  In order to think about this problem, I studied about the two theories of teacher education. One is theory proposed by C.E.Silberman that “teaching is the ultimate liberal arts”, and another is the theory by M.L.Borrowman that “liberal” is the concept about the “function” of education.

  Based on this study, some recent plans of reform are critically analyzed.