The Classes of Homemaking Education in Post-war Japan : The Case Study at The Elementary School Attached to Tokyo University of Education, from 1946 to 1962

Abstract

We researched development of interrelation within the elements of the class; daily life, teaching materials and pupils' feelings when studying homemaking. We analyzed reports by the homemaking teacher at the elementary school attached to Tokyo University of Education, from the journal "Kyoiku Kenkyu". Consistently, the homemaking teacher mainly held classes about what the pupils were feeling when studying. From 1946 to 1955, through her realizing their daily life, she described to pupils' feelings as "want to learn" and "must learn", and at the same time, she investigated the purpose of the homemaking education and created teaching materials suitable for it. But after 1955, she described them as "pleasant", "not boresome and "to gain confidence in oneself. These changes in her descriptions of pupils' feelings meant that she hoped to teach depending on the course of study and vigorously researched teaching method.