Curriculum Development of a Cultural Course during the new teaching in the Taisho era : A special establishment integrated subject developed in SEITOKU elementary school

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to make clear characteristics of the cultural course developed in SEITOKU elementary school in Tottori Prefecture during the new teaching in the Taisho era. The main findings are as follows; 1) A cultural course was a special establishment subject which lasted for six years of elementary school. It was carried out as a class of Japanese for one hour per week. 2) Three textbooks which the teachers of SEITOKU elementary school made were used in the class. 3) The reality of the cultural course was development-like one's hometown cultural environment learning. But it was oriented toward cultural synthetic environment learning from the viewpoint of ideology.