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Principle, praxis, and the politics of educational reform in Meiji Japan /

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082481620X (acid-free paper)

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9780824816209 (acid-free paper)

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b522387

Title Proper

Principle, praxis, and the politics of educational reform in Meiji Japan /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mark E. Lincicome.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawaii Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 298 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

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25 cm.

Text of Note

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1985 under title: Educational discourse and the dimensions of reform in Meiji Japan.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

Text of Note

Note on Japanese Names and Terms -- Introduction: Knowledge and Power in Modern Japan -- 1. Method in Search of a Theory -- 2. Principles and Politics -- 3. Bound by the Old School Tie -- 4. Between Education and Politics -- 5. Refining the Medium, Redefining the Message -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Developmental Education.

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. The reform movement centered around efforts to explicate and disseminate the doctrine of kaihatsushugi (developmental education). Hailed as a modern, scientific approach to child education, it rejected rote memorization and passive learning, elements of the so-called method of "pouring in" (chunyu) knowledge practiced during the preceding Tokugawa period, and sought instead to cultivate the unique, innate abilities of each child. Orthodox ideas of "education," "knowledge," and the process by which children learn were challenged. The position and responsibilities of the teacher were enhanced, consequently providing educators with a claim to professional authority and autonomy - at a time when the Meiji state was attempting to control every facet of the Japanese school system. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan analyzes a key element to understanding Meiji development and modern Japan as a whole.

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Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With few exceptions, however, Western approaches to the subject treat education as an instrument of change controlled by the Meiji political and intellectual elite. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan offers a corrective to this view. By introducing primary source materials (including teaching manuals, educational periodicals, and primary school textbooks) missing from most English-language works, Mark Lincicome examines an early case of resistance to government control that developed within the community of professional educators. He focuses on what began, in 1872, as an attempt by the newly established Ministry of Education to train a corps of professional teachers that could "civilize and enlighten" the masses in compulsory primary schools.

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Through the Tokyo Normal School and other new teacher training schools sponsored by the government, the ministry began what it thought was a straightforward "technology transfer" of the latest teaching methods and materials from the United States and Europe. Little did the ministry realize that it was planting the seeds of broader reform that would challenge not only its underlying doctrine of education, but its very authority over education.

Education and state-- Japan-- History-- 19th century.

Education-- Japan-- History-- 19th century.

Education-- Political aspects-- Japan-- History-- 19th century.

Japan, History, Meiji period, 1868-1912.

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Lincicome, Mark Elwood,1953-

Date of Transaction

20140214081502.0

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[Book]

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