Transformation of Christian Education in Japan-influence of foreign missionaries and religious orders

这是对日本基督教教育的基础性研究，尤其是在外国传教士和宗教教团的影响下发展起来的天主教教育。收集了日本天主教学校的主要资料和历史文献，以及与这些学校有关的宗教教团，以进行进一步的研究，但随着教派成员的减少，获得这些资料的难度越来越大。审议了天主教学校和宗教教团的关系，特别注意了这些学校的教育活动与宗教教团的精神或使命宣言的关系。此外，随着宗教教派数量的减少，这些学校的新继任者的组成发生了变化，这显然影响了这些学校的教育活动和内容。

This is a fundamental research on Christian education in Japan, especially, Catholic education, which grew under the influence of foreign missionaries and religious orders. The main materials and historical documents concerning of Catholic schools and religious orders connected with those schools in Japan were collected for further research, which has becoming more difficult to obtain with decrease of the members of religious orders. The relations of Catholic schools and religious orders were considered especially with attention of the relations of educational activities in those schools and spirituality or mission statement of religious orders. Also it became clear that change of formation of new successors of those schools with the drop of the numbers of religious orders influenced on educational activities and contents of those schools.