2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
On a Media History of Education in Tokugawa Japan
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12610258
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUJIMOTO Masashi Graduate School of Education, Professor, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (70221413)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | a history of media / literate society / publishing culture / Kaibara Ekiken / a publishing control policy / the political reform at Kansei / Sekimon-Shingaku / private writing school (Terakoya) |
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| Research Abstract |
This is a research to interpret education from the point of view of media history. The media of education changes in the history and it had prescribed the education in those days. This is an argument about transmission media of wisdom and information in Tokugawa Japan. Tokugawa Japan was a "literate society" where the use of reading and writing in everyday life is a commonplace event. So the literacy rate was high. I wrote an outline of publications coming in of the 17^<th> century, and I argued that educational meaning. I resolved the establishment of a unified literary culture all over the country, Many children learned letters at "TERAKOYA" (writing school). By the spread of publication, textbooks of learning and the "intellectual public bloc" were made to come into being, and suggested". Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714, a Confucianist), he translated Confucianism into easy Japanese books and he wrote many learning books for the literate people by new publishing media. On the other side, "Sekimon-Singaku" (which spread after the middle of the 18^<th> centuries) was an enlightenment movement by "DOWA" (oral lecture talking stories). It was the movement of the oral media, and it was fixed effective education to the non-literate people as well who were not able to educate so far. At the time of Kyoho-Kansei, Edo-Shogunate had a publishing control policy and it had an enlightenment policy by the voice media. That means that the Shogunate noticed the political meaning of the media of education. I suggested that the appearance of the school education had been at the future of the systematic people education at the time of Kansei.
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