社会教育思想としての公民教育論の検討

―田澤義鋪を中心に―

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  The purpose of this paper is to examine the theory of civic education from the point of adult and community education. The theory of civic education developed between the period of the 1920s and the Postwar Educational Reform and influenced the formation of the system of adult and community education in Japan.

  The theory of civic education from the prewar time has been regarded as being concerned with state control of the people. And the early Postwar Educational Reform of adult and community education has also been seen as way of controlling the people by the state. However, it has recently been argued that there were various aspects covering the idea of fostering people's political awareness contained within the theory.

  Thus, detailed examination is necessary to appreciate the theory. This study focuses on the theory of Yoshiharu Tazawa, who is famous as a leader of Young Men's Association (Seinendan) in order to understand the theory of civic education more precisely, referring to Ogawa and Matsuda's outline. Ogawa and Matsuda divided the theory of civic education into two types following the theory of national education by Senroku Uehara; political ideas and pedagogical ideas.

  This study shows that Tazawa definitely had both political and pedagogical ideas, and that through community action he intended to train citizens as workers and youths and to combine theory with practice.