The Concept of Nature Underlying Early Childhood Education and Care from Pre-Modern to Contemporary Japan, via Sozo Kurahashi and Kitaro Nishida
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| Title: | The Concept of Nature Underlying Early Childhood Education and Care from Pre-Modern to Contemporary Japan, via Sozo Kurahashi and Kitaro Nishida |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Yosuke Hirota (ORCID |
| Source: | History of Education. 2024 53(3):477-496. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 20 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Early Childhood Education Elementary Education Kindergarten Primary Education |
| Descriptors: | Educational History, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Environment, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Metacognition |
| Geographic Terms: | Japan |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0046760X.2024.2304353 |
| ISSN: | 0046-760X 1464-5130 |
| Abstract: | This article examines the Japanese historical concept of nature in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Through modernisation, Japan was infused with Anglo-European philosophy. However, Japan's pre-modern concept of nature differed from that of the West or modern Japan and latently affected the Japanese modern educational system. The concept of nature comprised two modes: "mizukara", meaning "voluntarily" or indicating the mode of the voluntary self or "I," and "onozukara", referring to what is "spontaneously or naturally so" or indicating modes of transcendence beyond the self that permeate Japanese pre-modern reading education and apprenticeship as well as contemporary Japanese society. This study investigates Japanese modern texts by representative educator Sozo Kurahashi and philosopher Kitaro Nishida on education and philosophy to describe the latent and underlying connection between the concept of nature and Japanese ECEC as well as to depict the configuration of educational discourse focused on nature. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1428009 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the Japanese historical concept of nature in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Through modernisation, Japan was infused with Anglo-European philosophy. However, Japan's pre-modern concept of nature differed from that of the West or modern Japan and latently affected the Japanese modern educational system. The concept of nature comprised two modes: "mizukara", meaning "voluntarily" or indicating the mode of the voluntary self or "I," and "onozukara", referring to what is "spontaneously or naturally so" or indicating modes of transcendence beyond the self that permeate Japanese pre-modern reading education and apprenticeship as well as contemporary Japanese society. This study investigates Japanese modern texts by representative educator Sozo Kurahashi and philosopher Kitaro Nishida on education and philosophy to describe the latent and underlying connection between the concept of nature and Japanese ECEC as well as to depict the configuration of educational discourse focused on nature. |
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| ISSN: | 0046-760X 1464-5130 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0046760X.2024.2304353 |
