Published: 2016-11-12

RELIGION AS AN INDISPENSIBLE COMPONENT OF THE JAPANESE CONCEPT OF EDUCATION (CONTINUITY AND CHANGE)

Toshiko Ito
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2012.2.04

Abstract

In Japan religion is still a current subject of educational discourse. The author presents a picture of the evolution of this discourse over the last two centuries. The paper has three sections. The first one deals with the transformations which took place in the relationship between education and religion in Japan, with particular emphasis on the period of Japanese education reform. Then, on the basis of two items of school learning – lessons on morality and ethics – the current controversy is presented with regard to the relation between education and religion. In the first of these analyses, the question is primarily about how public schools deal with religion, and specifically with religious feeling. In the second, the author considers how these same schools transmit knowledge on topics related to different religions. Finally, the third point covers the moments of continuity and change which appear with regard to the role to be attributed to religion in Japanese education.

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Ito, T. (2016). RELIGION AS AN INDISPENSIBLE COMPONENT OF THE JAPANESE CONCEPT OF EDUCATION (CONTINUITY AND CHANGE). Pedagogical Forum, 2(2), 55–77. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2012.2.04

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