The History of Modern Japanese Education : : Constructing the National School System, 1872-1890 / / Benjamin Duke.

• VerfasserIn: Duke, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (434 p.) :; 28 illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan -- Part I. The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education -- 1. Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan -- 2. Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863–1868 -- 3. The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868–1871 -- Part II. The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model -- 4. The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872 -- 5. The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872–1873 -- 6. The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872 -- 7. The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872–1873 -- 8. Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873–1876 -- 9. Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873–1876 -- 10. The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873–1882 -- 11. Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875–1878 -- 12. Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876–1877 -- 13. The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876 -- 14. 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 -- 15. “The Imperial Will on Education”: Moral versus Science Education, 1879–1880 -- 16. The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880–1885 -- 17. Education for the State: The German Model, 1886–1889 -- 18. The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890 -- Notes -- Index