1962 年 17 巻 p. 148-163,en242
It is important that the relation of a village community to education should be studied historically. Above all, how education is carried on in a village community today must be observed in relation to the process of change in the social and economical structure of a village community.
Oura, the object of my survey, is a poor fishing village of one hundred and eight houses. This village was founded by the people who immigrated there about three hundred and fifty years ago.
Now the process of change of this village may be devided into three periods.
(1) The social tension and unifying process in the village community.(before and after 1937)
(2) The stabilized period. (1950-1955)
(3) The changing period in the social and economical structure of the village community, reorganization of the village system.(1955-1962)
My subject-matter here is to study how the educational system of the village has been influenced by the change of the village in these three periods.