抄録
This study aims to answer the following two questions.
Why and how Kitaru Asahi who was a physical education teacher was motivated to introduce new teaching materials of dance education to other physical education teachers in the latter period of the Taisho era to the early period of the Showa era (1921-1937) in Japan? And secondly, what were the new teaching materials of dance education that Asahi introduced?
The main results are as follows.
Asahi had some difficulties when he taught dance, because there were neither suitable teaching materials for girls in physical education, nor a concrete curriculum of dance education for girls. He decided to collect information, and study dance education.
Asahi went on travels of inspection for physical education and stayed in the United States of America from June 1918 to March 1919. He received lots of chances to collect and study new teaching materials during these travels. Asahi stayed at Sargent School of Physical Education in Boston from September to December in 1918.He mainly studied gymnastics and dance. Also he visited elementary schools, high schools, normal schools, physical education teacher training schools, colleges, universities and boards of education in each state or city.Therefore, he could collect a lot of information about physical education or dance education.
After returning from the United States to Japan, Asahi published teaching text books for dance education and introduced new teaching materials. These materials were classified as follows. These were folk dance, gymnastic dance, athletic dance, and aesthetic dance. Asahi introduced these teaching materials for solving the difficult problem that he had before his inspections.
