Agricultural education

Japanese: 農業教育 - のうぎょうきょういく

Generally, it refers to education aimed at increasing agricultural productivity, but broadly, it also includes the practice of passing on the wisdom and techniques of our predecessors to the next generation while improving them at the household or community level through actual work. However, since the establishment of modern schools, it has come to refer primarily to a field of school education, but even here there are two different definitions: broadly, it refers to education related to agriculture taught in social studies classes in general education, but in the narrow sense, it usually refers to a field of vocational education. The above classification is common to most foreign countries. Agricultural education as vocational education includes fields such as agriculture, forestry, sericulture, animal husbandry, and horticulture, and in Japan, the first education was provided at the Hokkaido Development Agency Provisional School, which was established in Tokyo in 1872 (Meiji 5) for the purpose of developing Hokkaido.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

一般的には農業の生産性を高めるための教育をいうが，広くは，実際の仕事を通じて先人の知恵や技術を家や共同体単位で改良しながら次の世代に伝えるという実践をも含む。しかし近代学校成立以後は学校教育の一分野を主にさしているが，ここでも広狭二義があり，広くは普通教育の社会科などで行われる農業関係の教育をいうが，ふつうは狭義にとり，職業教育の一分野をさす。以上の区分は諸外国にほぼ共通である。職業教育としての農業教育には農業，林業，養蚕，畜産，園芸などの分野があり，日本では1872年(明治5)，北海道開拓を目的として東京に設置された開拓使仮学校の教育が最初とされている。

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