MA in Physical Education, Health Care

Our goal is to train future teachers or sports specialists to be active as leaders in groups of teachers or sports instructors, having both practical leadership and specialized research ability in PE in schools and sports practice. It is made possible by offering postgraduate-level specialized lectures, training, and experiments in PE, Health Care Pedagogy, PE Studies, Kinesiology, and Health Education. Emphasis is placed on furthering specialized areas such as Health, PE, and Sports Sciences and combining research and practice by attending the actual school education and sports practice.

Miyagi University of Education is a teachers’ college that has been educating teachers for more than 50 years. In addition to having excellent pedagogical skills in their chosen fields, it is essential for teachers to possess the qualities required to appropriately take into consideration the wide variety seen in students’ academic abilities, behavioral management, stances on various issues, and learning difficulties that appear in the classroom. For one to attain such traits, it is imperative to receive an education that develops one’s qualities as a human: an education our university has been providing for more than half a century. Professors at our university offer a warm, friendly atmosphere in their classes in which students feel comfortable to participate actively in discussions about topics in which they are interested. It is through the discussions held between teacher and student that real learning can occur? real learning that stays with students well after graduation. A large number of graduates mention these discussions as one of the primary reasons for their high-level skills when they are teachers in the classroom. Furthermore, many students are inspired in their studies through interactions among different majors and participating in overseas exchange programs and volunteer teaching experience abroad programs.