EJ482412 SO525319
Title: The Black Forest in a Bamboo Garden: Missionary Kindergartens
in Japan, 1868-1912.Author(s): Wollons, Roberta
Source: History of Education Quarterly, v33 n1 p1-35 Spr 1993
Publication Date: 1993
ISSN: 0018-2680
Language: English
Document Type: Historical material (060); Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAUG1994
Target Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners
Traces the
history of kindergartens in Japan. Maintains that the Japanese government
embraced the concept and modified it to encourage modernization.
Includes 10 photographs of wood block prints showing how Friedrich
Froebel's moral lessons were replicated in Japanese settings. (CFR)
Descriptors: *Educational History; Educational Objectives; *Ethical
Instruction; Foreign Countries; *Government School Relationship;
*Kindergarten; Kindergarten Children; *Parochial Schools; Politics
of Education; Primary Education; Social Values
Identifiers: *Froebel (Friedrich); Germany; *Japan; Missionaries
