The Realities of Library Education in the Postwar New Education

Nemoto Akira

doi:10.24628/yeiwa.21.0_37

During the postwar occupation period, the GHQ/SCAP ordered the establishment of school libraries to support the educational curriculum (library education) as a part of educational reforms. This paper examines the case of Kofu Municipal Minami Junior High School, one of the schools participating in the experimental school program implemented by the Yamanashi Prefectural Board of Education since 1949, based on the school's reports. In the first year, the school made a plan to incorporate library guidance to the school curriculum by referring to the paper of Ministry of Education and previous school cases, and tried to implement this in the second year under the name of“ Reading Guidance”. However, in the third year, the name was changed to just “Guidance” focusing on student counselling, and in the fourth year, the implementation of library education was reported to be virtually unsuccessful. The reasons for the failure were that priority was given to dealing with more difficult issues such as student care in the new junior high schools that had just been established, and that the entire teaching staff did not agree to the project nor was a professional staff assigned to implement it.

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