Kunio Yanagida and His School Textbooks

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  • 柳田国男と教科書
  • ヤナギダ クニオ ト キョウカショ

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<p>In the early Showa Period Kunio Yanagida advocated the necessity of regional education for the making of a good democratic constituency in each local area. Therefore he opposed any standardized curriculum with school textbooks authorized by the government. But after the war he abandoned his educational regionalism and devoted himself to the completion of standard textbooks to disseminate his theory of teaching all over the country. Such a drastic change in his pedagogical policy, however, occurred as a logical consequence of his philosophy of education that was essentially nationalistic.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 63 (1), 43-52, 2014-01-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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