A Study of the Secondary School Teacher Certificate Examination in Moral Education

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530955
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: FUNAKI Toshio 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (40181432)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 「文検」修身科 / 中等修身 / 友枝高彦 / 吉田静致 / 深作安文 / 宇野哲人 / 『文検世界』『文検受験生』『教育修身研究』

Outline of Final Research Achievements

“Bunken” is the certificate examination for autodidacts to become secondary school teachers in prewar Japan. This study focuses on its “Shushin-ka”. “Shushin-ka”, which was one of the main subjects in prewar secondary schools, is equivalent to today’s “Moral education”. In this study, the complete view of “Bunken Shushin-ka” was revealed. This study went through the following five procedures. (1) Its history was overviewed. (2) Characteristics of examination questions were clarified. (3) Relationships between the doctrine of examiners and examination questions were investigated. (4) Life histories of examinees (their motives to take the examination, their preparation for the examination, their lives after passing the examination) were elucidated. (5) Characteristics of secondary “Shushin-ka” education were clarified by analyses of “Shushin-ka” textbooks.

Free Research Field

日本教育史・教育学