占領下における初等教育教科課程の編成

日本の教科課程編成に対するGHQ/SCAPの指示・勧告を見る

抄録

After World War Ⅱ, Japanese education was under the strict control of the Civil Information & Education Section (CI&E) of General Headquarters / Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAPS). What was the suggestion or recommendation given by CI&E for the Japanese Ministry of Education when they were faced with the reorganization of the curriculum for elementary schools? By using the restricted documents of GHQ/SCAPS, this thesis clarified the curriculum reorganization. The features of CI&E’s suggestion or recommendation were as follows: （1）CI&E criticized Japanese elementary curriculum for having been organized by subject matter type and suggested that it should be changed over to an empirical widespread curriculum. （2）CI&E recommended that centralism should be eliminated and that decentralization should be implemented in Japanese education. The CI&E’s intentions had a great influence on the creation of Japanese elementary curriculum, and were especially clear in the argument about the time allotment for subjects.