Abstract
This paper researched the establishment and the deployment process of handicrafts in elementary and higher elementary schools in Ehime prefecture from the survey of handicraft education related materials seen in the Ehime education association magazine for four years and four months from “Revised Elementary School Ordinance” in 1907 (Meiji 40) to “Revised Elementary School Ordinance” in 1911 (Meiji 44) in the dawn era of constructing Basic Handicraft Education by Shimekichi Abe (1936) as the target period. As a result, nature of handicrafts has come to be discussed again as a subject having characteristics as practical education. In the background, there was an ideal of strengthening national power after the Russo-Japanese War, and further towards the First World War. Meanwhile, Ehime prefecture normal school-affiliated elementary school had been conducting the educational guidance of children by adding their own guidance plan, while conforming to “Handicraft Textbook ABCD for Elementary School Teachers.”
