Full Description
This unique collection provides critical analyses of Japanese educational history by bringing together gender, transnational, and transcultural perspectives.
It illustrates how Japanese, European, and American women educators transcended national borders in seeking to reform and re-shape Japanese education and society in the midst of social and political change from the Meiji era (1868-1912) to 1948 and beyond, including during the American Occupation of Japan. It demonstrates how educational practice from Europe and the United States not only flowed into Japan before and after the First and Second World Wars but also became entangled with Japanese perspectives, as well as with nationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and regionalism, as some Japanese educators sought to reform education for Asian women beyond Japan's borders. In an increasingly connected world, where, at the same time, opportunities for women's education in some countries are declining, the volume provides insights for readers into how women educators have co-operated historically across national borders in pursuit of reform in education and society in periods of immense social and political change, including at moments when nationalism and imperialism were in the ascendancy.
This volume will be of interest to academics, researchers, and post graduate students in the fields of Japanese history, history of Japanese education, Japanese women's history, gender perspectives, and transnational and transcultural research. It will also be of interest to readers curious about the history of Asia more broadly.
Contents
Introduction 1. Women and educational reform: Japan in a transnational world Introduction 2. Transnational flows: Women educators and educational reform in Japan Part 1: Transnational flows and women educators in modern Japan 1. Educational transfers between Britain, Japan, and China: Shimoda Utako's educational tour and entangled concepts of ryōsai kenbo (good wife, wise mother) around the turn of the twentieth century 2. Tsuda Umeko and her transnational travels in the US and the UK in the late nineteenth century 3. Ōe' Sumi's transnational experience in the UK, Europe and Japan: The Construction of the modern Japanese housewife and mothers through Domestic Economy from the 1900s to the 1920s. Viewpoint 1. Women educators' identity in Japanese state—formation and empire—building: transnational transfer of self—colonizing culture? Part 2: Western women and Transnational engagements in modern Japanese education 4. Women missionaries and the development of modern female Education in Japan in the late nineteenth century 5. Accreditation and the reform of women's higher education in Japan, 1946—1948 and beyond 6. US—Japanese progressive educators' interactions around race, gender and sexuality: Helen Heffernan in occupied Japan (1946—1947) Viewpoint 2. Empires of charity Part 3: Progressive education and intercultural exchange: Female practitioners in Japan, transnational Perspectives 7. Elizabeth Hughes and educational reform in Japan: Encounters, reception and dissemination at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century 8. Tsurumi Kazuko and the women's Life—recording movement: Her transnational experience via John Dewey and Pearl Buck from the 1930s to the 1950s Viewpoint 3. Retrospect and prospect
