CHAPTER SUPPLY OF TEACHERS ANDPROVISION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES
1 Characteristics of the Teaching Staff
(4) Teacher Training Institutions
b Curriculum of Teacher Training Institutions
The minimum standard for the curriculum for the preparation
of teachers in Japan is established by the Educational Personnel Certification
Law and its related regulations as well as by the Standards for the Establishment
of Universities. Each of the teacher training institutions prepares and enforces
its own curriculum on the basis of the aforementioned standards. This holds true
in the United States of America, but in France and U.S.S.R. types of subjects
to be taught, syllabuses, the number of study hours etc., are regulated in detail
by the standards laid down by the state or the constituent republic. In the U.S.S.R.,
even the text-books to be used have to be approved by the state. There are no
national standards prescribed for the curriculum in the U.K. or the Federal Republic
of Germany, but types of subjects and their teaching content are controlled box
the license examination for teachers conducted by the teacher training institutions
and the national public examination.
Compared with the curriculum of elementary school teacher training
institutions in other major countries, that or Japan allows more hours for general
education as in the United States, and so less time is assigned to the study
of professional education subjects than in the U.K., the Federal Republic of
Germany, France and the U.S.S.R. In other major countries than the United States
and Japan, greater importance is attached to the practice teaching with many
hours allocated, and so the guidance and evaluation of tlae practice teaching
are highly organized and systematized.