W.E・グリフィスの明新館における教育活動

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Fukui-han wanted a teacher "to establish a scientific school on the American principle and teach the natural sciences". They employed an American science teacher W. E. Griffis in 1871. He taught the school boys chemistry, natural philosophy, French, and German so earnestly. Fukui-han built an American style laboratory for his classes. When he taught chemistry and natural philosophy, he tried having many experiences. Japanese people and the school boys were surprised at the experiment with the oxygen and he wrote in his Diary "exciting work to teach". He planned a chemistry text book for Japanese school boys, for we in those days had not western science textbooks in Japanese. He studied hard good American, Dutch and English Science textbooks, and he tried to arrange for Japanese schoolboys. He used a blackboard at his classes. He called it "the blackboard system of instruction". He explained that it was useful "all the teaching has been by experiments and lectures verbally translated". He used the so called Lancasterian-system when he taught large classes. He wrote to his sister "In school I have organized new classes, setting the assistants to work at teaching, give private lessons to the smartest and best students in German and French in my house and set them to teaching in the schools. His teaching methods and contents were different from Japanese educational style. And Japanese school boys at Meishincan were excited in chemistry and physics experiments. They learned at first western sciences from an American teacher. We don't forget that a science teacher of an American Yatoi played a part in Japanese educational modernization in early Meiji Japan.
武蔵丘短期大学の論文
1994-03-15

W.E・グリフィスの明新館における教育活動

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