Shammi Datta

Shammi Datta is a professor at the Education Department of the Okayama University of Science. Previously, he was the director of the IB teacher education program at the Tokyo Gakugei University, Graduate School for Teacher Education. He has also taught the IBDP and Japan’s national curriculum at the high school level for over 20 years. He has been involved with several IB related projects of the Ministry of Education, and has served as advisor for numerous boards of education, universities, and schools in Japan. He is also an IBDP workshop leader, and a board member of the Japan Association for Research into IB Education. He has written and presented widely, mostly in the Japanese language, on IB related issues at conferences and international education forums.

Publications

Educational Reform and International Baccalaureate in the Asia-Pacific
Educational Reform and International Baccalaureate in the Asia-Pacific
David Gregory Coulson, Shammi Datta, Michael James Davies. © 2021. 414 pages.
The need to reform secondary-level education to prepare young people for new economic realities has emerged. In an age of constant career changing, cognitive flexibility is a...
Local Implementation of International Baccalaureate in the Japanese Secondary School System: How Good Practice Is Positively Impacting Education Provision
Local Implementation of International Baccalaureate in the Japanese Secondary School System: How Good Practice Is Positively Impacting Education Provision
David Gregory Coulson, Shammi Datta, Mai Sugawara. © 2019. 16 pages.
Japan is moving from a traditional focus on prescriptive English education towards a more forward-looking hybrid model, melding the influences of the world-class international...