A study on the Idea of Social Educational Administration of the Ministry of Education in between Two World Wars in Japan

在此研究中，我们厘清了两次世界大战期间教育部社会教育理念的历史和意义。2002年，我们分析了主要管理者的社会教育理论，即NORISUG KAJYU， KAWAMOTO UNOSUKE和OBI HANJI等。在接下来的一年里，我们研究了“自学”、“教育社会化”、“社会教育化”、“教育民主”、“教育治国”等教育理念的特点。结果表明，“教育自由”、“教育机会均等”、“教育行政独立”等现代教育理念是在大正民主主义和“新教育思想”的影响下形成的，并被认为是二战后社会教育重建的主导理念

In this study we clarified the history and significance of the idea of Social Education of the Ministry of Education in the period between two World Wars. In 2002 we analized the theories of Social Education of main administrators, namely NORISUG KAJYU, KAWAMOTO UNOSUKE, and OBI HANJI, etc. In next year we researched the characteristies of such educational ideas as "Self Learning", "Socialization of Education, Educationalization of Society", "Educational Democracy", and "Government by Education". As the result it was clarified that modern educational ideas, "Freedom of Education, "Equal Opportunity of Education, and "Independence of Educational Administration had been shaping under the influence of Taisho Democracy and "New Educational Thought", and that they had been received as the leading concept of the recondtruction of Social Education after the Second World War