修猷館の英語教育 : 明治・大正時代の教育課程・教材・教授法について

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This study investigated the English language education in the Meiji and Taisho Eras (1868 to 1926) at Shuyukan, a middle school in Fukuoka, focusing on its curriculum, textbooks, and teaching methodology. The school was founded as an English school in 1885 and kept its unique independence until 1899 when it finally became a publicly funded middle school. The new found information in this study specified the curriculum and textbooks not known in the previous research, and a comparison was made with other middle schools in the Western part of Japan. The research results revealed that (1) Shuyukan kept its English-biased curriculum even after 1899 but in a different way from the previous period, (2) Shuyukan's textbooks in the 19th century were much the same as those used in other schools, probably because of the limited variety of textbooks in those days, and (3) in the 19th century Shuyukan's teaching methodology greatly differed depending on the teachers' educational background and abilities, but in the 20th century there was a growing tendency to unify teaching methods by establishing a system for teachers to learn the latest methodology.