Scott Johnston

Mailing address:
Osaka Jogakuin College, 2-26-54 Tamatsukuri,
Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan 540-0004 (as of April 2004)

Email: sjohnsto53@yahoo.co.jp

MSU degree: PhD, 2000, Teacher Education

Dissertation topic: Resource Teachers in Zimbabwe: the challenges of becoming a teacher leader while trying to change one's own beliefs and practice

Current position: Assistant Professor of Education at Osaka Jogakuin College

Publications:
Integrating Japan into an Introductory Education Course. Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education. Fall2003, Vol. 5(2).
[http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme]

Professional Development in Zimbabwe: A Teacher and Teacher Leader Caught Between the Old and the New. International Journal of Educational Policy, Research & Practice. Vol4(2) 63-84.

Book review of National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States. Education About Asia.Vol8(2)54-56.

A Japanese 3rd Grade Classroom: The Individual Within the Group. Childhood Education. Vol. 78(6) 2002.

Using Videos to Compare K-12 Schooling and Society Within Japan. Education About Asia, Spring 2002, Volume 7(1), 53-56. In Batsirai's Classroom. The World and I. November 2000, p. 192-197.

Resource Teachers in Zimbabwe: The Challenges of Becoming a Teacher Leader While Trying to Change One's Own Beliefs and Practice. Dissertation at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. May 2000.

Resource Teachers: Conceptions of Teaching and Learning of a Group of A-level Science and Mathematics Teachers. Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, Volume 9(3); 237-255, 1997.

Japan's 'Playground' Universities. Tokyo Business Today, Feb. 54-56,1992. (co-authored with Seiji Yamaoka).

Communicating Through Games. Eigokyoikukenkyu [English Education Research], Kanagawa Prefecture High School English Teachers Association, 27;24-30,1991.

Another Idea for Classroom Newspapers. The Language Teacher. Volune14 (7):29-31.

Reviewed papers for Minnesota/Wisconsin TESOL in January, 2002 and 2003. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board (2003).

Reviewed presentation proposals to American Educational Research Association, Summer 2002.