Children's Village - Jidou no Mura

Japanese: 児童の村 - じどうのむら

A private elementary school established as an experimental school by the group "The Century of Education," which was founded in 1923 with Noguchi Entaro at the core. The first was Ikebukuro Children's Village Elementary School, 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 of the Taisho period. In 1925, Sakurai Sukeo opened Ashiya Children's Village Elementary School in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, and a private elementary school established by Ueda Shozaburo and others in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, was also named Children's Village.

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。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。

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