| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-406) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan -- Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education -- Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan -- Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868 -- The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871 -- Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model -- The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872 -- The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873 -- The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872 -- The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873 -- Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876 -- Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876 -- The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882 -- Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878 -- Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877 -- The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876 -- The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879 -- Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model -- The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880 -- The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885 -- Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889 -- The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890. |
| Summary |
The History of Modern Japanese Education is the first account in English of the construction of a national school system in Japan, as outlined in the 1872 document, the Gakusei. Divided into three parts tracing decades of change, the book begins by exploring the feudal background for the Gakusei during the Tokugawa era which produced the initial leaders of modern Japan. Next, Benjamin Duke traces the Ministry of Education?s investigations of the 1870s to determine the best western model for Japan, including the decision to adopt American teaching methods. He then goes on to cover the eventual. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Education. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Education and state -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Education and state. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Duke, Benjamin C. History of modern Japanese education. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 0813544033 9780813544038 (DLC) 2008007748 (OCoLC)196313692 |
| ISBN |
9780813546483 (electronic book) |
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0813546486 (electronic book) |
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1282033530 |
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9781282033535 |
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9780813544038 (alkaline paper) |
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0813544033 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612033537 |
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