2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Social thought and university extension in urban-industrial America 1890-1915

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530733
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	Hiroshima University
Principal Investigator	KOIKE Gengo Hiroshima University, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (00178170)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	大学開放 / 大学拡張 / 大学の社会貢献
Research Abstract	During the early phase of the university extension movement in the U.S.A., the three figures-Adams, James, and Ely-played an important role. All of them were spirited sociologists fully aware of the social missions of academic disciplines and scholars through their studies in Germany. At the same time, we cannot overlook the fact that they were interested in social gospel. They pilloried classical economics and aspired for the creation of a "cooperative society" as a new society to replace noninterference. There, as well as regulations by nations, it was deemed essential for common people to exercise proper independence. Consequently, the cultivation of intelligence of the general public becomes an imperative. They found the method for that in the British university extension. In other words, the early university extension movement was nothing but the measure to aim at the establishment of a "cooperative society" and to provide common people with higher education.