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American Social Studies in Japan: Some Observations on the Social Studies Reforms Imposed on the Japanese Educational System after World War Two.

Gunn, Angus M. – 1978

This report analyzes three aspects of social studies education in Japan: (1) characteristics of secondary education before World War II, (2) the nature and effects of United States intervention in secondary social studies in 1946, and (3) features of contemporary social studies. Before 1945 the boys' middle school, the Chugakko, was the most…

Descriptors: Comparative Education, Conventional Instruction, Democratic Values, Educational History