2021 Volume 46 Pages 73-83
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the theory of civic education at Nara Women’s Higher Normal School attached elementary school in the early Showa Era based on Rokuro Iwase’s theory and practice. In previous studies, Iwase has been analyzed from the viewpoint of “life training” and “life education” based on integrated learning, but it has not been examined from the viewpoint of how the lesson plan was embodied by “civil education” which is the key to the theory of Nara Women’s Higher Normal School attached elementary school. Therefore, in this paper, based on the discussion in the magazine “Study of Learning” of Nara Women’s Higher Normal School attached elementary school, the theory and practice of civic education in Iwase were considered from the viewpoint of “civil education”. First of all, Iwase found the teaching material which was responsible for the civic education in the subject of the SYUSHIN education, and it was not only teaching the virtue as moral education, but trying to enhance the civic education based on it. Second, Iwase emphasized political, economic, and social content of civil education, and at the elementary education stage, he thought it was important for each subject to work together to give public training to children. Third, Iwase proposed a curriculum for civil education based on SYUSHIN education, and tried to develop it step by step, with a view to the period from the fourth grade of the training course to the third grade of the higher education department. In the future, it is a problem to consider the relation between social studies and civil education theory after the Second World War compared with other civic education theory in the early Showa Era.
