The Historical Study on the Process of Introducing Japanese Archery to the Secondary School's curricurlum

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Ibaraki University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Tamaki 茨城大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50280136)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 弓道教育 / 旧制中等学校 / 弓道教導組織 / 弓道流派

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to clarify the characters of the process of introducing Japanese archery into the secondary schools’curriculum before the end of World War Ⅱ. The author came to conclusion as below; (1) I made a database of Japanese archery educations of all Japanese secondary schools, and clarified the overall picture before the Second World War. (2) In Yamagata, Japanese archery education of middle schools had been activated by practicing to the purpose of winning big competitions. (3) Japanese archery education was introduced at almost all girls’ secondary schools, so it can be inferred that Japanese archery had affinity with girls' physical education.

Free Research Field

日本教育史