抄録
The primary objective of this research is to analyze the discourse and to clarify the relations to the social environment. The subject area is Japanese newspaper education in the 1950's. Newspapers were advocated to contribute to democratic society in opposition to pre-war textbooks. Publishing school newspapers were recognized as a system of democratization. It was also resembled the policy of GHQ. In contrast, it included conflicting ideas that were not to limit the function of newspaper in order to deepen understanding. Because this approach focuses more on understanding than on values, it has an affinity with the ideas of media literacy.
