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CHAPTER SUPPLY OF TEACHERS ANDPROVISION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES

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.