A Reconsideration on the Discourses of J. A. Comenius in Pre-war Japan 2

Shinichi Sohma

This thesis is part of comprehensive survey of discourses on J. A. Comenius in prewar Japan. When national education system
 one of the main agents of the formation of nation state was established in mid 19th-century Japan
 Czech thinker in the 17th century
 Comenius was introduced as a precursor of modern education. More detailed examination on the process is expected for the deeper understanding of the acceptance of Western education in Japan.Through examining the books and magazines mainly concerning education published up to 1945
 the author discovered more than 20 articles about Comenius
 which have not been mentioned in the previous survey. In this series of theses
 the author lists them up and reconsider the process in which the interpretation of Comenius changed and diversified. This thesis pays special attention to the textbooks of the history of education and of pedagogy and didactics
 which were translated into Japanese from the latter half of 1880s to the 1890s
 the activities of Teizaburo Yamagata (1859-1940)
 and other articles and books appeared before 1895.

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 Bukkyo University

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