Northern Education

Japanese: 北方教育 - ほっぽうきょういく

This magazine was first published in February 1930 by Kitakata Educational Publishing (Akita City), which promoted the life-writing movement in response to the national magazine Tsuzurikata Seikatsu. As stated in the founding declaration, "Tzurikata education research rooted in the northern environment born from the trend of educational decentralization," it opposed standardized education that only taught national textbooks. It also criticized the literary-based Tsuzurikata of the Akai Tori school, aiming to combine Tsuzurikata with social sciences, and attempted to develop life studies based on the regional characteristics of rural Tohoku, the harsh natural environment, and the harsh agricultural and fishing labor and poor life that children face there.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

全国誌の《綴方生活》に呼応して生活綴方運動をおしすすめた北方教育社(秋田市)から1930年2月に創刊された綴方雑誌。その創刊宣言に〈教育地方分権の潮流に依って生れた北方的環境に根底を置く綴方教育研究〉とあるように，国定教科書を教えるだけの画一的な教育に反対した。また《赤い鳥》流の文芸主義的な綴方を批判して，綴方と社会科学との結合をめざし，東北農村の地域性，厳しい自然環境とそのなかでの児童を含めた過酷な農漁業労働や貧しい生活をふまえた生活学習を展開しようとした。

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