In this article, I attempted to treat the feature of appearance and development of the secondary education in rural area in the latter half of
Meiji era. The issues treated here are as follows:
1) What was the relation between the educational reform in the middle of
Meiji era and a rapid increase in the number of technical continuation schools (TC school)?
2) Why was it that in the latter half of
Meiji era, the number of agricultural continuation schools increased rapidly, while that of technical continuation schools did not, although the Government stressed the technical education?
3) What did the Government expect from the TC school?
4) What benefits did the TC school give to the local people?
I examined these issues in the case of
Miyagi Prefecture, with procedures as follows:
1) To examine the activities of the TC school.
2) To clarify the roles of the TC school for the rural life.
3) And to analyze the relationship between the TC school and educational policies at that time.
The conclusion is as follows:
1) The TC schools had already existed to meet the needs of the local people, when the Government planned to set up the TC school system.
2) Every one could enter the TC school and its main purpose was to provide a practical education. This characteristic led to the rapid in-crease in the number of the TC school.
3) The Government could respond to the people's need for secondary education and, at the same time, enlighten them, by using this institution.
4) Besides this intention of the Government, peasants also benefited greatly from the TC school, and in fact many peasants' children entered this school. This, in turn, contributed much to an expansion of secondary education at that time in rural Japan.
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