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 MasakoEma WATANABE
**Name**
Masako Ema WATANABE
**Affiliation**
Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies
Department of Educational Sciences
Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
**Employment History**
2007 (May) - present Associate Professor, Nagoya University
1998 (Oct.)-2007(Apr.) Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1998(Jun.) - 1998(Sept.) Assistant Editor, Social Science Japan Journal, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
1991(Jan.)-1995(Aug.) Teaching Assistant, Columbia University
**Educational History**
1998 Ph.D., Columbia University (Sociology)
1996 M. Phil., Columbia University (Sociology)
1993 M.A., Columbia University (Sociology)
1990 B.A., Columbia University (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
**Research Interests**
A comparison of styles of reasoning in Japan, the United States, and France; international comparisons of history and language arts education; a comparative study of elite education in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France
**Main Publications**
Books:
2004. The Structure of Understanding: Styles of Reasoning and Expression in Japnese and American Schools, Tokyo: Toyokan.
2003. Styles of Narrative in History Education: International Comparisons of Pedagogy and Textbooks (editor), Tokyo: Sangensha
Articles:
2007. "A Comparison of Language Arts Education in the Three Countries, Japan, the United States, and France: Socio Historical Analyses of Reading and Writing," Nihon Kenkyu, 35:573-619.
2003. "Styles of Explanation and Evaluation in History Education," The Journal of Educational Sociology, 73:43-63.
2003. "A Comparison of Creativity and Individuality in Japan and the United States," in Kawai Hayao ed., In Quest of the Individual in Japanese Culture, Tokyo:Nihon Hoso Shuppannkai, pp.263-296.
2001. "Styles of Explanation in Japan and the United States," Japanese Sociological Review, 52(2):333-347.
2001. "A Paradox of Individuality and Creativity through Composition Lessons," The Journal of Educational Sociology, 69:23-42.
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