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Comparative Research on elite education between Japanese higher schools and English public schools

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06610231
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Educaion
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

TAKEUCHI Yoh  KYOTO UNIVERSITY,Faculity of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (70067677)

Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1996
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
KeywordsJapanese Higher Schools / English public Schools / cultivation / social mobility / social reproduction / elite / gentleman / samurai / 教養主義 / 教育エリート / 文化資本 / 旧制高等学校 / トマス・ア-ノルド / 木下広次 / パブリック・スクール革命
Research Abstract

My research is of a comparative nature focusing first on the emergence and development of the public schools while demonstrating that similarities exist between higher schools in Japan of the Meiji cra and public schools of the Victorian cra, and sccondly on analysis of similarities and differences between the two making use school registers and other avaitable data. I hold that the higher schools were not necessarily open to the poorer strata of society, reflecting the mechanism of social reproduction, and conversely that public schools were not the exclusive domain of the upper class indicating that the mechanism of social mobility was at work. I also hold that the public schools succeded in creating a 'generalist elite' in the form of politicians and administrators capable of paternalistic leadership, but failed to develop a corps of 'specialist elites' such as scientists. The higher schools emphasized natural sciences as well as the humanities, producing both types of elites. The public schools, by emphasizing tradition and the culture of the gentleman, produced an elite which was stable and well-grounded, but which lacked a spirit for innovation. By contrast the emphasis on 'cultivation' in the higher schools was in effect a matter of absorbing Western culture and of severing tics with traditional Japanese culture. Because of this' the higher school elite was unable to form an opposition to the 'invention of tradition' dominant in the rise of militarism. In considering Japanese elite education of the future, it would be valuable both to reflect on the changes undergone by the public schools surviving today in post-war society, as well as to speculate on the effect the higher schools might have had on post-war Japanese society had they survived the war.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1996 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1995 Annual Research Report
  • 1994 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(5 results)

All Other

All Publications

  • [Publications] G.ウォルフォード (竹内他訳): "パブリック・スクールの社会学" 世界思想社, 342 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] G・ウォルフォード(竹内他訳): "パブリック・スクールの社会学" 世界思想社, 342 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 竹内洋: "教養知識人の運命-三四郎と実人生-" 漱石研究. 5. 136-145 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 竹内洋: "NHK人間大学 立身出世と日本人" 日本放送出版協会, 119 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Walford,G, 竹内洋 他訳: "現代のパブリック・スクール" 世界思想社, 300 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1994-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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