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
Language: English
Authors: Yosuke Hirota (ORCID 0000-0002-4722-8817)
Source: History of Education. 2024 53(3):477-496.
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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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