ABSTRACT
Postwar teacher education remained substantially unchanged for nearly four decades after 1949, when Japans postwar school system was established. The significant restructuring of teacher education began only in the late 1980s in response to prob lems resulting from immense social transformation. That restructuring was orches trated by the National Commission on Educational Reform (NCER), which launched a highly visible, sustained educational reform campaign in 1984, an initiative author ized by the national legislature and directed by the prime minister. During its delib erations on the future of Japanese education, NCER issued four reports, the last of which was made public in 1987.
