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January 1, 2024Educational Studies in JapanOpen Access

“Why are We Running Short of Teachers Even as the Birthrate Declines?”: A Case Study of the Teacher Shortage in Public Schools in X Prefecture in Japan

Aki Sakuma Naoto Shimazaki

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This paper examined the actual circumstances of the recent teacher shortage in public elementary and junior high schools in X Prefecture. Although teacher shortages had been reported, few previous studies had investigated them empirically.

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Sakuma et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a221e0c3081c2f8f8e243f4 https://doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.18.191

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