Cottage system

…Despite the “universal phenomenon of delinquency,” the rate of children detained without a family (one or both parents missing) is over 60%. Children live in a cottage system, receiving education in daily life, learning at the school within the facility, and working education. The staff who provide guidance in the cottage are called “kyogo” or “kyomyo,” and it has been a tradition since the home school days that husband and wife provide guidance as if the cottage were a home, and this was one of the distinctive features of the education in the reformatory. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "cottage system" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…〈非行の普遍化現象〉にもかかわらず，被収容児童の家庭の欠損率(片親もしくは両親が欠けている率)は6割以上となっている。児童は小舎制cottage systemで生活し，暮しの教育，院内の学校での学ぶ教育，働く教育を受けている。小舎で指導にあたる職員を教護，教母と呼び，小舎が家庭であるかのごとく夫婦で指導するのが，家庭学校以来の伝統であり，教護院教育の特色の一つであった。…

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