- 著者
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片山 清一
- 出版者
- 教育哲学会
- 雑誌
- 教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.1967, no.16, pp.69-80, 1967
Educational history, in contrast to general history, is studied as a special history; but in the sense that it presents the history of education which as such has cultivated the human mind which in turn forms general history, it possesses also a universal scope clarifying the very foundations of general history. In that connection Christopher Dawson's view on education in his <I>The Crisis of Western Education</I>, is very revealing. Culture and education are inseparable, education, in fact, is “enculturation”. Hence, the extinction of educational tradition leads to the death of culture. When research in educational history is conducted taking education in this broad meaning, the distinction between factual history of education and the history of educational ideas becomes meaningless.<BR>But education in its development is constantly subject to actual conditions. According to James Mulhern, economic, religious, social and political factors in a real world exercise their influence on education. But these factors are outside of education and do not belong to its essence. Education being subject to these actual conditions, also has the power to transcend them and even to govern them. The reason is that the indispensable function of education is to pursue an ideal to be realised in the future. Education is a human activity carried on in the present world in order to make the heritage of the past useful for a time to come. It is exactly through education that man becomes truly man.<BR>But in the study of educational history, the educational ideal conceived at one particular period in the past is frequently overlooked. Or rather, the grasp of that ideal in terms of the material available is difficult. In the study of educational history the examination of various actual conditions which have a bearing on education is indispensable, but it is necessary to clarify how these conditions were dealt with by presenting ideals making for educational development.<BR>Only when carried out in this fashion will the study of educational history become a source of strength for the education of tomorrow.