A Study on "Supplementary Books" as Media for the Development of Literacy from the Beginning of Taisho Period to the Beginning of Showa Period

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330241
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: Fukawa Genichiro 横浜国立大学, 教育人間科学部, 名誉教授 (00199176)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 国語教育 / 近代日本児童文学 / 副読本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to elucidate a relationship between elementary Japanese language education and literature from the beginning of Taisho period to the beginning of Showa period. For that purpose I aimed at the "supplementary books" which came into existence as a point of contact between Japanese government books and various non-government children's books. The results of pigeonhole and analysis of almost all those books, I found out that those "supplementary books" have following 3 kinds;books which were complementally for school education.books which were influenced by Taisho liberalism.books which had a tendency to the teaching of ethics.
The publication styles were various, therefore some books had stiff covers and the others were similar to leaflets. After my investigation, I could discover the role of children’s literature in those books in those periods, and could understand the extension of those functions.

Free Research Field

教科教育