Message from the Deangreeting
The School of Education of Kyushu University was established in 1949 as the predecessor of the Department of Education in the School of Law and Letters of Kyushu Imperial University, which was established in 1924, and celebrates its 75th anniversary in this academic year (2024).
As a school of education that is “not a teacher training course,” Kyushu University’s School of Education has produced a wide variety of individuals related to education and psychology, including researchers working in universities and research institutes, highly specialized professionals working in government and private companies, and educators active in school education, through education based on both pedagogy and psychology.
The School of Education moved to the Ito Campus East Zone (Nishi-ku, Fukuoka) in September 2018, and just as we were beginning our new journey, we were hit by the Corona disaster. Since then, the world has become even more globalized and fragmented, and the challenges of human history have become more apparent.
Under these circumstances, it is very important for us to persistently tackle issues without separating knowledge and practice, aiming to integrate diversity and inclusion in the true sense of the word, not as a mere formality, within ourselves and realize it in our society.
It is also necessary to question the conventional wisdom on which we stand.
I want to nurture people who have the intelligence and courage to dare to shake their own footing.
These are the words of a scholar who taught my mentor and has been deeply involved in education since the early postwar period.
Education can be thought of as an interdisciplinary and concrete activity that forms human beings who work collaboratively to solve social problems and create a new society and history.
At the same time, education, especially public education such as school education, can be influenced by current politics and economics, and can be thought of to those ends. However, it is education that nurtures people to engage in the politics and economics of the future. Also, AI (Artificial Intelligence), which will have a great impact on society in the future, is very good at building things up from scratch, but it is also human beings who can create things from 0 to 1.
We hope that all of you will grow as people with abundant creativity who can compile various data into appropriate information and apply it to actual social change and creation, rather than being distracted by information created by someone else.
To this end, we will continue the tradition of the School of Education at Kyushu University by identifying the essence of its traditions so that each one of you can freely and vigorously pursue your studies and research. We will also make every effort to manage the School so that we can avoid conventionality and enhance educational and research activities that combine knowledge and practice without separating the two. Let us work hard together.
