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INOUE, Noriyuki
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Human Sciences, School of Human Sciences
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph.D. ( Columbia University )
M.A. ( Columbia University )
M.Ed. ( Harvard University )
Profile

Noriyuki Inoue, Ph.D. specializes in educational psychology and action research methodology. At Waseda University, he teaches courses in educational psychology, educational system development, and educational research methods. His recent research focuses on teacher agency, action research, lesson study, teacher development, and teacher decision-making — exploring what it takes to teach inquiry-based lessons effectively and promote students’ social-emotional learning. He also examines educational epistemology through a comparative lens.

Dr. Inoue serves on the editorial board of the Japan Association of Research on Educator Transformation (JARET) and on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal for Transformative Research (IJTR). He has frequently served as a consultant and advisor to schools and educational organizations around the world.

His journal articles have appeared in Teaching and Teacher Education, International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies, and Teacher Development, among other venues. In the United States, he has published two books with Peter Lang Publishing (New York, NY): Mirrors of the Mind: An Introduction to Mindful Ways of Thinking in Education and Beyond Actions: Psychology of Action Research for Mindful Educational Improvement.

Dr. Inoue began his career in Japan as a mathematics teacher, where he developed a strong interest in human cognition and learning. During these years, his initial focus on mathematics education evolved into a broader exploration of human cognition and development. In 1991, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States and earned an M.Ed. from Harvard University, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He later served as a full-time faculty member at several universities in the U.S., and since 2017, he has been a Professor at Waseda University, where he continues to teach and conduct research. (see YouTube videos).

​He welcomes inquiries from international researchers and graduate students interested in collaborating with him. (He accepts graduate theses and dissertations written in English.)

Research Experience

  • 2017.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Human Sciences   Professor

  • 2017.01
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    2017.02

    University of Cambridge   Faculty of Education   Visiting Scholar

  • 2003.08
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    2016.12

    University of San Diego   School of Leadership and Education Sciences   Associate Professor

  • 2001.08
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    2003.03

    University of Saint Joseph   Department of Child Study, Education and Special Education   Assistant Professor

  • 1998.09
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    2001.08

    Teikyo Post University   School of Arts and Sciences   Instructor

Education Background

  • 1995.09
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    2002.10

    Columbia University  

  • 1991.09
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    1993.05

    Harvard University  

  • 1981.04
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    1985.03

    Osaka University   School of Engineering Science  

Committee Memberships

  • 2020
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    Now

    Japan Association of Research on Educator Transformation  Editorial board member (2020-) Editor-in-chief (2023-2025)

  • 2017
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    Now

    International Journal for Transformative Research  Editorial Advisory Board

Professional Memberships

  • 2023
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    Now

    Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology

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    World Association of Lesson Study

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    International Journal for Transformative Research

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    Japan Association of Educators for Human Development

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    American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Research Areas

  • Educational psychology   Educational psychology

Research Interests

  • educational psychology

  • action research

  • lesson study

  • inquiry-based lessons

  • teacher agency

  • teacher transformation

  • educational research methods

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Awards

  • University Professorship Award

    2014   University of San Diego  

  • Distinguished Faculty Award

    2010   University of San Diego, School of Leadership and Education Sciences  

  • Fulbright Scholarship

    1992   JUSEC (Fulbright Japan)  

 

Papers

  • Unpacking and transforming teachers' beliefs toward inquiry-oriented teaching through lesson study: A cross-case analysis of Thai preservice science teachers.

    Nawanidbumrung, W., Promratana, P. L., Chantharaukrit, P., Inoue, N.

    Journal of Education and Learning   13 ( 6 ) 184 - 202  2024  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Last author

  • Epistemic justice in classroom dialogues: Coming to know the ‘other’ with non-Western epistemological lenses.

    Inoue. N

    In M. Meredith (Ed.), Universities and epistemic justice in a plural world: Knowing better.     95 - 105  2024

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Beyond the linear standard: What circular models can teach us about teachers’ continuing professional learning needs in Australia, England, Japan and The Netherlands

    Van der Lans, R. M, In de Wal, J. J, Daas, R, Durksen, T. L, Inoue, N, Wilson, E, Cornelissen, F

    Teaching and Teacher Education   138  2024  [Refereed]

  • Catalyzing humanistic inquiries into contemporary social agendas: An introduction to the new Educational Innovation and Communication Studies Master’s Program

    Inoue, N

    Waseda Journal of Human Sciences   35   275 - 280  2022  [Invited]

  • Guiding educational innovation to promote children's non-cognitive abilities to succeed: implementation of the Sesame Street curriculum in Japan

    Inoue, N, Light, D

    International Journal of Lesson and Learning   11   245 - 259  2022  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Linking theories and actions-in-practice: Infusing n=1 action research projects into educational psychology courses

    Inoue, N

    Teacher Development   26 ( 3 ) 397 - 410  2022  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • The impact of pre-service teachers' pedagogical beliefs on teaching science as inquiry: A silent antagonist for effective inquiry-based science lessons

    Nawanidbumrung, W., Samiphak, S., Inoue, N.

      33 ( 1 ) 112 - 121  2022  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Last author

  • Final commentary. In M. Impedovo, Identity and teacher professional development: A reflective, collaborative and agentive learning journey (pp.97-101). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

    Inoue, N

       2021

    Authorship：Lead author

  • 教師が自己成長できるために：アクション・リサーチャーを育てる

    井上 典之

    浅田 匡・河村 美穂 (編) 教師の学習と成長: 人間教育を実現する教育指導のために ミネルバ書房    2021

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Enhancing pre-service teachers’ reflective quality on inquiry-based teaching through a community of practice

    Ketsing, J, Inoue, N, Buczynski, S

    Science Education International   31 ( 3 ) 367 - 378  2020  [Refereed]

  • Deconstructing teacher expertise for inquiry-based teaching: Looking into consensus building pedagogy in Japanese classrooms

    Inoue, N, Asada, T, Maeda, N, Nakamura, S

    Teaching and Teacher Education   77   366 - 377  2019  [Refereed]

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    What does it take for teachers to effectively teach inquiry-based lessons? We videotaped a series of mathematics lessons that involve whole class consensus building discussions (neriage) taught by leading teachers at Japanese elementary schools followed by teacher interviews. The triangulated data analysis revealed that the teachers facilitated class discussions to achieve the lesson goals effectively, but they made modifications to their lesson plans on the spot to bring all the students together while promoting their whole person development. Based on these, we argue that the teacher expertise to teach inquiry-based lessons effectively involves holistic envisioning, adaptability and inclusiveness.

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  • Bringing life to educational psychology through cross-cultural experiences. In K. Keith (Ed.), Culture across the curriculum: A psychology teacher's handbook. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

    Inoue, N

       2018

  • Educational epistemology, culture and history: Response to Joan Walton.

    Inoue, N

    International Journal for Transformative Research   3   29 - 32  2016  [Invited]

  • The role of subjectivity in teacher expertise development: Mindfully embracing the “black sheep” of educational research.

    Inoue, N

    International Journal for Transformative Research   3   16 - 23  2016  [Refereed]

  • Learning to overcome epistemological challenges: A case of a cross-cultural action research exchange program between the United States and Japan

    Inoue, N

    ACTION RESEARCH   13 ( 2 ) 154 - 169  2015.06  [Refereed]

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    Cross-cultural experiences can offer unique opportunities to examine our assumptions that underlie our worldviews. This paper discusses a cross-cultural action research program in which US and Japanese university students mutually presented and discussed their action research projects in Tokyo. Planning and organizing the program involved a series of dialogues with the Japanese partner that had led to mutual agreement to frame the cross-cultural exchange as ba, a Japanese cultural concept that implies intersubjective and open communicative arena to co-develop a new understanding. This paper discusses what the US students and faculty group experienced and learned in the cross-cultural program. Through the program, the students encountered different styles of communicating meanings and epistemology and made sense of new ways of viewing the world. During the program, the US faculty group experienced an unanticipated disconnect with the Japanese partner about restructuring the discussion format to elicit more participations of the Japanese students, but it was eventually overcome though a series of reflective dialogues regarding the nature of silece and voicing one's opinions. This paper discusses how encountering different modes of communications and social dynamics in cross-cultural dialogues can help us become aware of various assumptions that underlie our action research endeavers.

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  • Developing soft skills in action research: A cross-cultural approach with East-Asian epistemology.

    Inoue, N

    Sage Handbook of Action Research (3rd edition).    2015

  • Social and personal development

    Inoue, N

    Educational psychology reader: The art and science of how people learn     251 - 169  2014

  • Reflective practice and motion sickness: Thoughts on the first North American Action Research Study Day.

    Lowell, R, Inoue, N, Getz, C

    Educational Action Research   22   251 - 269  2014  [Refereed]

  • Creation and initial validation of the motivation belief inventory: Measuring leaders’ beliefs about employee motivation using for motivation theories.

    Facer, D. C, Gallaway, F, Inoue, N, Zigarmi, D

    Journal of Business Administration Research   3   1 - 18  2014  [Refereed]

  • A cultural analysis of trends and directivity of U.S. teacher education and educational research: What can we learn from there?

    Inoue, N

    The Bulletin of Japanese Curriculum Research and Development   34 ( 3 ) 87 - 94  2013  [Refereed]

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    This paper first introduces a set of recent trends of U.S. teacher education and educational research, and then discusses its directivity and structural issues that underlie the trends. Historically speaking, teacher education in the U.S. has dynamically shifted its focus as it involved a number of new initiatives and explorations to meet diverse needs of the dynamically changing society. This paper discusses some of the most important trends and discussions in U.S. teacher education and educational research, from which it points to meaningful educational and policy implications for future educational research, teacher education and subject education in Japan and other cultures.

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  • Achievement motivation, assimilation, decenter, locus of control, schema, Yin and Yang.

    Inoue. N

    In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Blackwell.    2013

  • Zen and the art of neriage: Facilitating consensus building in mathematics inquiry lessons through lesson study.

    Inoue, N

    Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education   14   5 - 23  2011  [Refereed]

  • Lost in translation: L2 learners' struggle to communicate cultural meanings of L1-specific expressions.

    Inoue, N, Molina, S

    CATESOL Journal   22   10 - 23  2011  [Refereed]

  • You asked open-ended questions, and now what?: Understanding the nature of stumbling blocks in mathematical inquiry lessons.

    Inoue, N, Buczynski, S

    Mathematics Educator   20   10 - 13  2011  [Refereed]

  • Omoi vs. thinking in action research

    Inoue, N

    The California School Counselor   14  2011

  • Developing a policy for an international experience requirement in a graduate teacher education program: A cautionary tale.

    Buczynski, S, Inoue, N, Lattimer, H, Alexandrowicz, V

    Teaching Education   21   33 - 46  2010  [Refereed]

  • A cross-cultural approach to deconstructing cognitive processes in the mathematics classroom.

    Inoue, N

    In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Cross-cultural psychology: A Contemporary reader (pp. 198–209). Hoboken, NJ:    2010

  • The issue of reality in word problem solving.

    Inoue, N

    In B. Greer & L. Verschaffel (Eds.), Words and worlds: Modelling verbal descriptions of situations. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education (pp.195-209). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publisher.    2009

  • Rehearsing to teach: Content-specific deconstruction of instructional explanations in pre-service teacher trainings.

    Inoue. N

    Journal of Education for Teaching   35   47 - 60  2009  [Refereed]

  • Minimalism as a guiding principle: Linking mathematical learning to everyday knowledge.

    Inoue, N

    Mathematical Thinking and Learning   10   1 - 32  2008  [Refereed]

  • Why face a challenge?: The reason behind intrinsically motivated students' spontaneous choice of challenging tasks

    Noriyuki Inoue

    LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES   17 ( 3 ) 251 - 259  2007  [Refereed]

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    In a task choice situation, why do some students spontaneously choose challenging tasks while others do not? In the study, 114 undergraduate students were first asked of their perceived competence and interest in solving number puzzles at both individual and situational levels, and then asked to choose one puzzle from four difficulty levels. They received no performance feedback throughout the session. Regression analyses indicated that the students with higher individual interest levels chose more challenging puzzles, while the students with higher levels of perceived competence and low levels of individual interest did not necessarily choose difficult puzzles. The students who chose more challenging puzzles attributed their choices to interest rather than perceived competence. The study suggests a limitation of relying on students' self-reported confidence in their ability and the importance of conceptualizing individual interest as the reason behind the choice of challenging tasks in a low-pressure task choice environment. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • The realistic reasons behind unrealistic solutions: the role of interpretive activity in word problem solving

    N Inoue

    LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION   15 ( 1 ) 69 - 83  2005.02  [Refereed]

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    It is known that school-aged children have a strong tendency to solve mathematical word problems by mechanically calculating numbers even if their calculational answers seem unrealistic. The present study found that undergraduate students also demonstrate this tendency, but many of them could justify their "unrealistic" responses with sensible rationales. In-depth clinical interviews revealed that some of the "unrealistic" responses stemmed from simply an unanticipated, but realistic understanding of the problem situations, while others stemmed from intentionally conforming to the culture of schooling. It is suggested that cognitive functioning in problem solving is highly dependent on an individual's contextual interpretation of the activity. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Young children doing mathematics: Observation of everyday activities.

    Ginsburg, H.P, Inoue, N, Seo, K

    In J. V. Copley (Ed.), Mathematics in the Early Years. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.    1999

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Books and Other Publications

  • Creating a teacher collective: Professional development within the group, the community, and the network

    Impedovo, M, Ferreira-meyers, K, Inoue, N( Part： Joint author)

    Rowman & Littlefield  2023 ISBN: 1475869363

  • Beyond actions: Psychology of action research for mindful educational improvement.

    Inoue, N

    New York: Peter Lang Publishing  2015

  • Mirrors of the mind: An introduction of mindful ways of thinking education

    Inoue. N

    New York: Peter Lang Publishing  2012

Research Projects

  • 教師の主体的研究マインド育成を目的とした教職大学院へのアクションリサーチ導入研究

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業

    Project Year :

    2025.04
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    2028.03
     

    井上 典之

  • International development of lesson study to promote elementary school students' non-cognitive skills

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

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    2018.04
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    2021.03
     

 

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Overseas Activities

  • 教育システム研究の方法論・教育心理学の理論と実践について

    2022.04
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    2022.09

    フランス   エクス-マルセイユ大学

Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of Human Sciences   School of Human Sciences (Online Degree Program)

  • Faculty of Human Sciences   Graduate School of Human Sciences

  • Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences   School of Education

Internal Special Research Projects

  • 児童の非認知能力の促進を目的とした授業研究・アクション・リサーチの国際的展開

    2023   Elaine Wilson, Maria Impedovo, Rikkert van del Lans, Frank Cornelissen, Margaret Meredith

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    本研究では、教育現場において授業研究やアクション・リサーチのような教師自身が自らの教育実践を改善するために行う研究・探究活動をいかに促進し、そこから教師の成長を促すことができるかという観点で研究活動を行っている海外の研究グループとの共同研究を行い、様々な文化的コンテクストにおける方法論的方略を学び、そこから新たな知見を創生するためのコラボレーションを行った。その中では教師が学び手の非認知的な次元を含む全人格的成長を促すゴールを教科教育や授業での学習者とのやり取りの中で見失うことなく、他の教師とコラボレーションしながら探究を続けていくことの大切さが明らかとなったと同時に、そのような活動の文化コンテクストへの依存性も浮き彫りになり、引き続きこの研究課題についての国際的コラボレーションを続けていくこととなった。本研究課題による研究成果としては、エクス・マルセイユ大学の研究者らと共に教育実践改善を目指した探究活動を促進するための教師集団コレクティブを形成する方法についての英語による学術書を執筆・出版し、アムステルダム大学、ケンブリッジ大学の研究者らとOECDのTALISデータを分析して各国の教員研修のあり方の国際比較を行った査読付き論文を国際学術誌に発表した。またヨーク大学の研究者から招待されて認識論的正義という切り口で、教育実践におけるダイアローグのあり方について論じた論文を英語による学術書のチャプターとして発表した。またグラスゴー大学で行われたヨーロッパ教育学会(ECER)では、教育実践改善を目的としたアクション・リサーチにおいて、そのゴールを徐々に進化させていくことがいかに教え手の成長につながるかについてのペーパー・プレゼンテーションを行い、各国からの参加者から多くの反響を得た。

  • 算数教育において非認知的能力を促進する方法を解明するためのアクションリサーチ研究

    2018  

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    本研究では日本の小学校における算数の授業でエキスパートの教師がいかに児童の非認知能力を促進しているかを調べるために、13件の授業ビデオデータ、教師インタビュー、児童アンケートからなるデータを取集した。その分析からエキスパートの教師は教科の学習の様々な場面で生徒の自律的な問題解決を促進したり、クラスメートと一緒にチャレンジを乗り越える自信をつけさせる機会を与えたりしていることが分かった。本研究ではこの結果をアメリカ、イギリス、アジアの教育研究者・実践者にシェアし、今後日本を含む４カ国にまたがる国際アクション・リサーチ研究を行う計画案を作成した。

  • 教師の専門技能発達のための批判的内省の内容・意味の研究

    2017  

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    このプロジェクトでは教師の専門技能発達のために不可欠と考えられている教師の批判的省察 (criticalreflection)の性質をより深く理解するために申請者が米国の大学の教員養成プログラムにおいて収集したデータの分析を行い、2017年 8 月にコペンハーゲンで行われたヨーロッパ教育学会(European Conferenceon Educational Research)で研究結果の発表を行なった。現在学会で得られたフィードバックをベースに、欧米の学会誌に研究内容を投稿する準備を行なっている。