夢の変遷 : 20世紀の子ども史(1)
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概要
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Japanese people like the word "dream." The people who have a dream look attractive and those who do not have a dream conversely are considered to be unsatisfactory. It is because it is thought that the people with a dream have a pure soul like a child since the dream is deeply connected to the child. This article aims at considering changes of Japanese children in the 20th century through "the dream," strong desires which they had about their future occupation. The occupation children want to attach in the future changes with age or times. Presently, boys are yearning overwhelmingly to be a baseball or a football player. On the other hand, the first place of hope for the present-day girl is the candy store. The tendency of the 1980s seldom differed from the present except for the low popularity of the candy store or the florist. The feature of the 1960s is that boys yearned to be a scientist or an engineer and girls were yearning to be flight attendants or designers. The main feature of the 1920s is that boys and girls were yearning to be a great person or an admired person. In addition to this, boys of those days yearned for a military career, and the girls of that time yearned to be a career woman. Children were not able to choose a future occupation freely at the beginning of the 20th century. Therefore, they did not consider a future dream. As a result, the Taisho period (1912-1926) is the time when children began to have a dream in Japan. Nowadays the child who dreams of becoming an office worker tends to be criticized as deficient in his dream. However, many children wished to be office workers during the period of the 1920s to the 1930s, and they were blamed as trying to avoid severe training of a craftsman and pursuing "the cheap dream." After all, although a child's hope changes with times, the child has always accepted the times.
- 2005-03-31