List of Partner Institutions

Aichi University of Education recognizes its role as a center of learning with commitments to quality and excellence in teaching, scholarship, research in specific disciplines, comprehensive and in-depth liberal arts education, and general cultivation of wide-ranging judgment and full and harmonious humanity. Recalling the principles of, inter alia, the Constitution of Japan, the Fundamental Law of Education of Japan and the UNESCO World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century: Vision and Action, the university declares on 16 April 2003 that its universal mission is, through instruction and scholarly inquiry, to contribute to world peace, human welfare, and the advancement of arts, culture and sciences.

Tokyo Gakugei University (東京学芸大学) or Gakudai (学大), for short, is a national university in Koganei, Tokyo. While its history may be traced to 1873, it was formally chartered as a university in 1949 through the merging of four teacher-training institutions.

In 1966, the Graduate School of Tokyo Gakugei University was established, and since 1996 it has offered Doctoral degrees in the education field as part of a coalition of educational institutions that include Chiba University, Saitama University, and Yokohama National University.

In recent years, Tokyo Gakugei University has developed programs to better accommodate professional school teachers, including evening and short-term courses. The university also houses a number of national research centres in education-related fields. In addition to its Koganei campus, it also maintains a number of attached public schools offering curricula in elementary, secondary, and special education at various locations in the greater Tokyo area.

The university has a strong reputation in education-related fields, playing a national role in the development of educational policy and innovations in teacher education.