This major conducts research and provides education which aims at learning to nurture autonomy, diversity, and cooperativity; as well as competencies for thinking, decision-making, and self-expression; by integrating fundamental and theoretical researches on the value and mechanisms of learning with practical researches on the methods for learning and learning-support from the learners' point of view. Also, we conduct scientific and practical research and provide education for solving relevant issues in school education such as bullying, truancy, classroom disorder, and school violence.