Pioneering Developments toward Globalization Found in Female Sport Education in Modern Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560308
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Gakushuin Women's College
• Principal Investigator: Arai Keiko 学習院女子大学, 国際文化交流学部, 教授 (50082938)
• Research Collaborator: KUWAO Kotaro 学習院アーカイブズ, 職員
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 近代日本 / 女性スポーツ教育 / 先駆的展開 / 華族女学校 / 細川潤次郎 / 下田歌子 / 津田梅子 / グローバル化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to examine the physical and sport education at the Peeresses' School, which is thought to have played a leading role for female sport education under the influence of American and European innovative education in modern Japan, and to explain the pioneering developments of female sport culture which are linked to today’s globalization. For this purpose the research was done by investigating the archive documents concerning the educational view by Junjiro Hosokawa, the fourth principal of the school. In addition to this, the information was retrieved about Bryn Mawr College in America, where Umeko Tsuda studied and Cheltenham Ladies’ College in England, which Utako Shimoda visited for her researches. In sum, this study focuses on the influences American and European educational models had on the female sport education in modern Japan and their relation to the contemporary globalization.

Free Research Field

スポーツ人類学