2016 Volume 25 Pages 114-124
This research examined the kinds of challenges and difficulties that led teachers to utilize aspects of the private educational research movement in voluntary training, based on the discourse found in Hito magazine.
The challenges as described in Hito magazine were two fold. First, the teachers acknowledged their limited ability to prepare lessons. This limitation led teachers to become involved in the movement to obtain data on the results of the educational movement’s experimental research. The goal of the movement was to provide specific educational techniques which would permit teachers better preparation for their class lessons. Second, while the teachers learned and practiced the skills as found in the private educational movement, they were aware of the necessity of individualizing the information to fit each child, not applying blanket theories. In this voluntary training, teachers considered it as ideal not to imitate the knowledge or the skills given by the government agencies and not just follow the outlined directions.
By using Hito magazine we have been able to study the relationship between the private educational research movement and voluntary teacher training which has not been studied before.
