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

本研究厘清两次世界大战期间教育部社会教育思想的历史沿革与意义。2002年我们分析了主要管理者的社会教育理论，即Norisug Kajyu，川本雄介和Obi Hanji等。第二年我们研究了“自我学习”，“教育社会化，社会教育化”，“教育民主主义”和“教育政府”等教育思想的特点。研究结果表明，“教育自由”、“教育机会均等”、“教育行政自主”等现代教育理念是在大正民主主义和“新教育思潮”的影响下形成的，并在二战后被接受为社会教育再认识的主导理念

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