scholarly journals Education and ‘Civilization’

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2021/1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferenc Takó
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Meiji Era

Studies on the transformation of the Japanese educational system in the Meiji period usually emphasise the intensity of reforms and their comprehensive character. In the framework of the present study, I will briefly summarise the central aspects of this transformation, then turn to the examination of the tension manifested in Meiji period discourses on education. This is a tension that emerges when one compares the interpretation of the Meiji era as the introduction of ‘enlightened’ Western liberalism with the ideology of centralised reform, far from being as liberal as reported by Meiji period intellectuals themselves. I draw attention to this tension as manifested in the purposes of Meiji educational reforms, then I turn to the analysis of the education of women as a central question in terms of the interpretation of the family in Meiji Japan. The analysis is based on the writings of the leading intellectuals of the time, basically their essays published in the famous journal of the 1870s, Meiroku Zasshi 明六雑誌.

scholarly journals Methods to Form the Pedagogical Culture of Parents in the Educational System of the School

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Galina Veniaminovna Sorokoumova ◽  
Anastasiia Olegovna Bespalova
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Educational System ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Pedagogical Culture

The article deals with the concept of pedagogical culture of parents, the goals of development of pedagogical culture of parents and methods of formation and improvement of the level of pedagogical culture of parents. The paper focuses on the tasks of interaction between an educational institution and the family in the upbringing of children. Methods of study. To study the possibility of forming a pedagogical culture of parents, we used a questionnaire to survey the needs of parents to interact with the educational institution and the interest of teachers in working with the family, the «Ideas about the ideal parent» method by R. V. Ovcharova, Y.A. Degtyareva, «Family Biofield» inquirer by V. V. Boyko and «Determination of parenting skills» questionnaire by O.L. Zvereva. Results of the study. The article shows the results of the impact of the program, which includes a seminar using the case technology «pedagogical culture of parents» and parent training based on the program «education based on common sense» on the formation of the pedagogical culture of parents. Conclusion. The results of the study proved the possibility of purposeful formation of the pedagogical culture of parents in the educational system of the school and the high efficiency of practice – and personality-oriented methods of such work, and also showed greater competence and awareness among parents and kindergarten teachers in the education of children.

scholarly journals A Meiji-kori japán nyelv forrásai

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2018/1) ◽  
Author(s):  
András Zsigmond Albeker
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Language ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Meiji Era ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
Linguistic Material

While the stenographic records of the Meiji era have been analyzed in thecontext of linguistic research into the unification of the spoken and writtenlanguage (gembun icchi 言文一致), vocabulary and grammar, there is somedebate as to the value of these records. This paper aims to clarify what kinds of difference occurred in the process of translating and typing the shorthand symbols into magazines andnewspapers. It has become clear that the stenographed speeches published in newspapers and magazines were not faithful reproductions of the original texts. Tomake it easier for the reader to understand, mistakes were rectified in the transcribing process, words and word forms were corrected by the stenographer and/or the editor. It seems that- as linguistic material - the value of a stenographic record ishigher than that of a shorthand book. However, very few shorthand manuscripts have so far been confirmed and in genre they are closer to stenographed speeches. We can assume that if a shorthand manuscript such as rakugo落語 or the Imperial Congressional Record were to be discovered, our understanding of the Meiji period Japanese language would be further enhanced.

From Custom to Right: The Politicization of the Village in Early Meiji Japan

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. William Steele
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Village

In 1874 Itagaki Taisuke and other critics of the newly established Meiji government submitted a petition demanding a popularly elected national assembly. This is said to be the origin of the Liberty and People's Rights Movement (jiyū minken undō). Around the same time a number of local political leaders intensified their campaign for the creation of village assemblies. Although the demand for local autonomy in the early Meiji period was both deep-felt and widespread, only a few scholars, notably Neil Waters, have diverted their attention from Itagaki and other political activists and thinkers at the center. An examination of Meiji local politics is nonetheless essential to understand Japan's modern political development.

scholarly journals Impacts of Reforms in Chinese Educational System

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rassidy Oyeniran ◽  
Emile Uwamahoro
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Education System ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Chinese Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
China’S Education

This paper focuses on the impacts of the reforms in Chinese educational system. Education ispart of China’s overall development and it is known that the last recent decades the wholeChinese educational system has been the subject of unprecedented reforms. The increasedimpact of educational reforms has provided significant human resources and innovation,which facilitated progress in the economic, political, cultural, and social development. Thedevelopment of China's education system has been a major factor in its economic and socialgrowth. This article aims to examine some of the effects that the reforms have generated onthe entire Chinese education system and provide guidelines for minimizing limitations andweaknesses of the education system in its reforms. Using a qualitative approach to collect thedata drawn from articles and materials, this paper aims to discuss educational reforms andhow they affect the Chinese education system by exploiting the readings related to the subject.Some progress has been achieved in the extent to which transformations are perceptible.Gains have been made through educational policies supported by good economic health foryears. Despite the progress, education seems to be the field of some contradictions and thereis a need to overcome certain shortcomings and weaknesses of educative practices that theChinese educational system is still facing. Possible solutions are proposed in conclusion andrecommendation.

Pedagogical Conditions for Developing Structural Components of Students’ Genealogical Culture

10.12737/2868 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Извеков ◽  
Igor Izvekov
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Teaching Aid ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

The paper discussed how to optimize moral and spiritual upbringing of competent to-be specialists in the student environment. The potential of genealogy (family) as a means of character education, yet-uninvolved by the educational system, is considered. According to the author’s viewpoint, this potential helps to nurture morality and spirituality through scientifically grounded study of the family history in the context of National History. The author also explores the teaching aid and educational program named «A History of Family in the National History: genealogy in the higher school educational process» published by INFRA-M publishing house (2013).

Autoexotic Literary Encounters between Meiji Japan and the West: Sōseki Natsume's “The Tower of London” (1905) and Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (1904)

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Edo Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
Meiji Era ◽  
Travel Writings

As Roland Barthes's epoch-making essay Empire of Signs suggests, in a slightly orientalist tone itself, modern japanese culture is a fascinating kaleidoscope of Eastern and Western cultures, but at the same time a strong purism is inherent in its aestheticized nationalism. In this essay, I offer a comparative literary analysis of select travel writings that emerge out of Japanese-European encounters in the Meiji era (1868–1912) to show the cultural dynamism of the time, after the Edo period (1603–1852), when Japan first opened its borders to the West. My analysis of Japan of that time as an Eastern-Western contact zone is based on Homi Bhabha's notion of cultural hybridity and Mary Louise Pratt's understanding of a cultural encounter in an asymmetrical power constellation. Japan has never been a colony, escaping Western imperialism through the (sakoku; “closed country”) policy of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who banned all Christian missionaries and Western foreigners from the insular empire. In the Meiji modernization in 1868, the old samurai elites imported select reforms from Western Europe, notably from England, France, and Germany, to Japan. This is why Yōichi Komori claimed that Japan is a “self-colonized” () culture (Posutokoroniaru 8). Through the Meiji elite's adoption of certain modern ways from Germany, France, England, and the United States, an “imitative modernity” came into being.

scholarly journals Ghanaian Educational System: A Deviation from Cultural and Socioeconomic Structure; A Bane for Unemployment

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
George Obeng ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Employment Structure ◽  
Educational Curriculum ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family ◽  
Socioeconomic Structure ◽  
Unemployment Problem

There is a growing concern of youth unemployment among tertiary graduates. Skills acquired in school provide an opportunity to grab. Unemployment sounds unusual in the preindependent colonial era when people learn the trade of the family. After independence, schooling for government jobs became a mantra. There is a shift from the culture and socioeconomic structure to governmental employment structure. This study determines how the population structure is outpacing public government business creating employment deficit and how the curriculum is defeating entrepreneurial development in Ghana. The literature is reviewed, and discussion with students as focused group addresses the unemployment problem. The study concludes that the educational curriculum that is not incorporating the traditional industries is creating unemployment.

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