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This paper provides a historical background for the current state of geography education in Japan, focusing primarily on the role of Japanese universities in the teacher training process. There are several problems in the teacher licensure process in Japan. For elementary school teacher training, candidates are not required to have taken a geography class. Prior field research and map use training is not required for teachers licensed to teach secondary school Social Studies and the Geography and History subject areas. Many of these university programs fail to provide sufficient geography education to pre-service teachers. As a result, newly licensed educators are unable to competently teach the subject.
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Ohnishi, K. (2015). University Geography Departments and the Teaching License in Japanese Geography Education. In: Ida, Y., Yuda, M., Shimura, T., Ike, S., Ohnishi, K., Oshima, H. (eds) Geography Education in Japan. International Perspectives in Geography, vol 3. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54953-6_12
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