Dr. Tanaka is a professor at Hokkaido University of Education in Sapporo, Japan. In addition to teaching, he is the co-director of the Hokkaido Society of the Study of Education and chair of the research committee in the Hokkaido Non-government Educational Research Council. Dr. Tanaka also serves as a committee member of the Japanese Association of Universities of Education. He is a member of the Japanese Society of the Study of Education and the American Educational Research Association.
Dr. Tanaka received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo in Japan. Prior to his position at Hokkaido University of Education, Dr. Tanaka was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Dr. Tanaka’s research interests include epistemology of education, the clinical study of education and teacher education, and educational methods developed by Japanese teachers from a variety of philosophical backgrounds.
Dr. Grimmett is a professor of education and director of the Institute for Studies in Teacher Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, Canada. In addition to his positions at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Grimmett is a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, associate editor of The Journal of Curriculum and Supervision and The Journal of Education for Teaching, and member of the Canada Research Chairs’ College of Reviewers. He has a British Columbia Deans of Education appointment to the Council of the BC College of Teachers. Dr. Grimmett was assistant program chair for Division K of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in 1997 and president of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education (1988-90).
Dr. Grimmett’s research interests include requisite professional knowledge and skills for practitioners, teachers’ construction of practice through reflection and action research, effects of socio-political-cultural contexts on teachers’ work, and impact of public policy decisions on conditions of teaching and learning.
Dr. Grimmett has published 40 refereed journal articles. He’s written eight books, 38 book chapters and also gained more than a million dollars in research funding. Dr. Grimmett has produced two professional videos and engaged in public discourse in the press via radio about the vital issues affecting education. In May 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tampere, Finland, in recognition of his outstanding merits as a researcher and educator in the areas of professional development and teacher education.