著者

村山 拓

出版者

千葉経済大学

雑誌

千葉経済大学短期大学部研究紀要 (ISSN:13498312)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.55-68, 2007-03-31

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This paper aims at the historical analysis on the situation of the education in Yaeyama area in Okinawa under the governance of the military administration by the United States. Especially, this research takes notice of the cultural campaign by the Yaeyama Education Society (Yaeyama-Kyoiku-Kai) and the inauguration of the first "Petalozzi Festival" by the teachers in this district. Pestalozzi Festival commemorate Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi(1746-1827), a Swiss educational theoretician and practitioner. He never came into Japan, and Okinawa, but many educators in Japan commemorate him and success his thought. In Yaeyama area this festival started in 1949, and it has been continuing for more than 50 years without the interruption. The case of this festival is never seen in another area in Japan. After the battle in Okinawa was finished in 1945, the military government started the adopted the policies in Okinawa in the different way of the one in mainland Japan. In Yaeyama, the original "Yaeyama Education Act" was in force, and the school organization was 8-4 system by 1949. Yaeyama Education Society established in 1948, and the first festival is in 1949. This research attempt to make the situation of the society and of the first festival be clear.