Meiji Primary School Language and Ethics Textbooks

George Sansom once called the history of education in late nine-teenth-century Japan 'a useful example of a reaction against foreign influence and a return to tradition in the midst of a strenuous process of "modernization".' Sansom and others have depicted Japanese education during the first three decades of the Meiji period (1868-1912) as follows: during the 1870s Japanese education was completely dominated by the Western philosophies and principles which were flooding a country newly opened to foreign intercourse after two and one-half centuries of isolation. This extreme Westernization led to a 'conservative reaction' in government and education circles during the 1880s. This, in turn, culminated in the Imperial Rescript on Education of 1890 and the emphasis on 'traditional' moral education which was the hallmark of schooling in the 1890S. This shift in educational policy on the part of the Meiji government has been seen as 'part of the general swing during the 1880s away from unnecessarily close imitation of the West and back towards more traditional values

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Backwardness · Compulsory education · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Government (linguistics · Meiji period · Meiji Restoration · Modernization theory · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Westernization · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools

• World Children’s Literature

  Open Access•Melek Ortabasi•Cambridge History of World…•2021

  Incluir item

• The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan

  Andrew T Kamei-Dyche•Book history•2011

  Incluir item

• Historiography and Bibliography

  Open Access•Elinor Mondale Gersman•History of Education Quarterly•1975

  Incluir item

• The New Generation of Conservative Politicians in Japan

  Open Access•James Babb•Japanese Journal of Political…•2013

  Incluir item

• Premodern warriors as spirited young citizens

  Open Access•Aafke Van Ewijk•Japan Forum•2023

  Incluir item

• The Western world and Japan

  George Bailey Sir Sansom•The Western world and Japan•1950

  Incluir item

• Fifty Years of New Japan

  Count Shigenobu Okuma, Marcus Bourne Huish•Bulletin of the American…•1910

  Incluir item

• Japanese Education

  John Nissel, Tokiomi Kaigo et al.•Monumenta Nipponica•1966

  Incluir item

• Thought and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics

  Douglas H Mendel, Masao Maruyama et al.•Pacific Affairs•1964

  Incluir item

• East Asia

  C P Fitzgerald, John K Fairbank et al.•Pacific Affairs•1965

  Incluir item