Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School - Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School

Japanese: 池袋児童の村小学校 - いけぶくろじどうのむらしょうがっこう

...A private elementary school established as an experimental school by the group "The Century of Education," which was formed in 1923 with Noguchi Entaro at the core. The first was Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School, which was established in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in 1924, with Nomura Yoshibei and later Totsuka Ren among its teachers. The education there respected "freedom to choose a teacher," "freedom to choose a time," "freedom to choose teaching materials," and "freedom to choose a place," and played a major role in promoting the education reform movement in the Taisho period. ...

From [Free Education]

...In Japan, the free education pursued in the process of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement aimed to eliminate the power control over education. In the Taisho period, for example, there was the proposal of free art education by Yamamoto Tei, the Free University movement led by Tsuchida Kyoson, and schools such as Hani Motoko's Free School (1921), Nishimura Isaku's Bunka Gakuin (1921), and Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School (1924) all adopted the slogan of free education, which aimed to promote educational reform by respecting children's spontaneity and self-activity. The theory and practice of the "new education" after World War II also followed the lineage of the prewar "free education." ...

From Entaro Noguchi

...He also had a deep understanding of the new education movement in Europe and the United States, and after becoming executive director of the Teikoku Education Association in 1914, he played an active role as a national leader. In 1923, he founded the Educational Century Society ("Century of Education") with Shimonaka Yasaburo and others, and in 1924, using it as a base, he founded Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School ("Children's Village") and became its principal. Furthermore, in 1930, he formed the Japan New Education Association, served as its chairman, and joined the International New Education Association, making great contributions to the new education movement....

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…野口援太郎らが中心となって1923年に結成した団体〈教育の世紀社〉が実験学校として開設した私立小学校。最初のものは24年に東京池袋に創設された池袋児童の村小学校で，野村芳兵衛やのちには戸塚廉などが教師として参加した。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。…

【自由教育】より

…日本の場合，自由民権運動の過程で追求された自由教育は，教育への権力統制を排除しようとするものであった。また大正期には，たとえば山本鼎の自由画教育の提唱や土田杏村を指導者とする自由大学の運動があり，羽仁もと子の自由学園(1921)，西村伊作の文化学院(1921)，池袋児童の村小学校(1924)などが自由教育をスローガンにしたが，そこでは子どもの自発性や自己活動を尊重して教育改造をおしすすめることがめざされていた。また，第2次大戦後の〈新教育〉の理論や実践も，戦前の〈自由教育〉の系譜をひくものであった。…

【野口援太郎】より

…欧米の新教育運動にも深い理解をもち，19年帝国教育会の専務理事に就任してからは全国的な指導者として活躍した。23年下中弥三郎らと教育の世紀社(《教育の世紀》)を結成，それを母体として24年〈池袋児童の村小学校〉(児童の村)を創設，その校長となった。さらに30年には〈日本新教育協会〉を結成して会長を務め国際新教育協会と結ぶなど，新教育運動に大きな貢献をした。…

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