This paper describes the features of learning for older adults during the postwar older adult education founding period, and the fluidity of the concepts of “education” and “welfare” by examining the philosophy and teachings of Inuyama Toshiyori College, which was established in 1958 by Asakichi Matsuura (1902-1959) for the senior citizens’ average stature of the time.
Inuyama Toshiyori College was established in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, based on Senior Citizens’ College that was founded by Bunjyo Kobayashi. Matsuura uniquely implemented the idea of older adult education in colleges for senior citizens, which spread across the nation after 1965, to guarantee postwar citizens a living and to help them overcome the traumatic experience of war. In other words, his practice of education for older adults based on fluid concepts of “education” and “welfare” was pioneering.
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