The History of Modern Japanese Education
434 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
28 illustrations
Paperback
Release Date:14 Mar 2014
ISBN:9780813569666
The History of Modern Japanese Education
Constructing the National School System, 1872-1890
Rutgers University Press
The History of Modern Japanese Education is the first account in English of the construction of a national school system in Japan, as outlined in the 1872 document, the Gakusei. Divided into three parts tracing decades of change, the book begins by exploring the feudal background for the Gakusei during the Tokugawa era which produced the initial leaders of modern Japan. Next, Benjamin Duke traces the Ministry of Education's investigations of the 1870s to determine the best western model for Japan, including the decision to adopt American teaching methods. He then goes on to cover the eventual "reverse course" sparked by the Imperial Household protest that the western model overshadowed cherished Japanese traditions. Ultimately, the 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education integrated Confucian teachings of loyalty and filial piety with Imperial ideology, laying the moral basis for a western-style academic curriculum in the nation's schools.
Duke tackles the thorniest issue in the making of modern Japan and...has written what has to be regarded as the definitive work on the book's topic. Essential.
Benjamin Duke has written a wonderfully detailed, well-structured and, above all, entertaining account of one of the most important periods in the development of Japanese Education.
BENJAMIN DUKE is a professor emeritus of comparative and international education at the International Christian University in Tokyo. He is the author of several books on education in Japan.
Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan
Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education
Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan
Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868
The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871
Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model
The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872
The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873
The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872
The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873
Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876
Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876
The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882
Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878
Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877
The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876
The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879
Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model
The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880
The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885
Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889
The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890
Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education
Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan
Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868
The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871
Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model
The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872
The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873
The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872
The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873
Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876
Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876
The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882
Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878
Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877
The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876
The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879
Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model
The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880
The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885
Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889
The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890
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