Restructuring “Attitude Constructs” from the Perspective of Trainability

<p>In 2019, the Japanese Language Subcommittee of the Council for Cultural Affairs published a report entitled “On Human Resource Development for Japanese Language Education,” in which specific attitude items needed for Japanese language teachers were listed. However, these items were listed individually without any organization into a holistic structure, and it was uncertain whether some of the items in the report are trainable or not. To utilize the report as grounds for creating teacher training courses, the attitude items should be restructured from the perspective of trainability.</p><p>Thus, the author rearranged the attitude items shown in the report and created a new attitude system in which each constituent is correlated. The system consists of four categories: (1) items concerning how to interact with others; (2) items concerning teachersʼ values on learning and teaching; (3) items concerning teaching considerations; and (4) items concerning improvement of organizations and society. The author proposed a grand design for teacher training in which only (3) is dealt with directly; (1) and (2), which seem to be untrainable, can be dealt with indirectly as a result of the “inward expansion” of “reviewing on oneʼs values,” which is a subitem of (3), and (4) can be dealt with in turn as a result of the “outward expansion” of (3).</p>