A Study of Educational Material Development and Responses to Ministry of Education by Utilizing Waste for Economical Uses under Material Control:

From the start of the Committee on Materials and Teaching Aids in the Association of Handicraft Education to the start of the craft training sessions in the Department of Work in Japan (1938 to 1940).

Abstract

This study aims to characterize what school researchers did to spread craft education facing lack of craft materials due to the Japanese government restrictions under Material Control after the Second Sino-Japanese War. Particulary, it focuses on what the Association of Handicraft Education did to develop educational materials and how they responded to the new system which Ministry of Education enforced from 1938 to 1940. The results of this study show that the Association of Handicraft Education organized an expert committee to introduce how they could utilize waste in the craft education to the handcraft education. That is, they endeavoured to get the utmost use out of things and find new materials, keeping it the basic rule to save resources. Moreover, they requested, as a response to Ministry of Education, for a distribution agency according to the regulations on materials needed in model aircrafts.