Ashiya Children's Village Elementary School - Ashiya Children's Village Elementary School

...The education there respected the freedom to choose teachers, time, materials, and locations, and played a major role in the promotion of the education reform movement in the Taisho period. In 1925, Sakurai Sukeo opened Ashiya Children's Village Elementary School in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, and a private elementary school founded by Ueda Shozaburo and others in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture also took the name Children's Village. However, in the 1930s, the entire education world began to lean toward nationalism, and the support base of Children's Village wavered, and they found themselves in financial and personnel difficulties. In the mid-1930s, both were forced to close, and only Tokyo Children's Village Elementary School, which opened in 1936, continued to exist until the Second World War. ...

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…そこでの教育は，〈先生を選ぶ自由〉〈時間を選ぶ自由〉〈教材を選ぶ自由〉〈場所を選ぶ自由〉を尊重し，大正期の教育改造運動の高揚に大きな役割を果たした。25年には桜井祐男によって兵庫県芦屋に芦屋児童の村小学校が開設され，さらに神奈川県茅ヶ崎に上田庄三郎らによって創設された私立小学校も児童の村を名のったことがある。しかし30年代に入ると教育界全体が国家主義に傾斜していき，児童の村の支持基盤もゆらぎ，財政や人事面でゆきづまり，30年代半ばにはそれぞれ閉鎖を余儀なくされ，36年に発足した東京児童の村小学校だけが第2次世界大戦下まで存続した。…

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