Rethinking Curriculum Reform at Seijo Elementary School : Focusing the School Library as a Learning Environment

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  • 成城小学校におけるカリキュラム改革再考 : 学習環境としての学校図書館論とその実践を中心に
  • セイジョウ ショウガッコウ ニ オケル カリキュラム カイカク サイコウ ガクシュウ カンキョウ ト シテノ ガッコウ トショカンロン ト ソノ ジッセン オ チュウシン ニ

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A number of the preceding researches on Seijo Elementary School during Taisho period have pointed out its epoch-making feature of its various educational practices which are historically eminent. But those preceding researches have been bound to the narrow conceptualization of curriculum, e.g., time table, fields of subject, and others. "It is important to understand the ideas and values which motivate the individual subjectivity by characterizing the quality of curriculum. This quality of curriculum is actually "invisible" underneath of the tangible curriculum as an explicit system. Instead of those researches, this paper attempts to analyze the theory and practice of school library at Seijo Elementary school in terms of a physical learning environment. For this purpose, I have tried to search for the teachers' practical recognition of organizing the epoch-making library space and structure as a learning environment. As a result, I have found that the school library played an important role in nurturing the individual student's reading ability as a basis of competence of the individual subject. The value of the library readings is linked with curriculum content well as the teaching method and subject. As a result of trial and error of practicing the school library, teachers struggled for building the ideal learning environment, and were gradually conscious of their own teaching method and curriculum based on the experiences. It is indispensable for the school teachers to organize the teaching members of the entire school in order to create the efficient learning environment. Those outstanding practices were made by teachers who could share the merits of using the library resources.

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