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[gaudior]

Hi! Does anyone know when Japanese schools adopted the Spartan approach (suparuta kyoiku)? I feel like it was either "the Meiji era" or "after World War II," but haven't been able to figure out which.

If you don't know, do you know where I can look it up?

Thank you!

--R

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

Are the reforms also known by another name? I'm looking at an ebook in our catalog titled Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone's Legacy, and the background chapter on the Meiji and Occupation reforms doesn't mention suparuta kyoiku by that name.

Other than that, so far I got nuthin'.


Edit: grammar

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

It may not actually have been either of those periods-- I know that "Spartan education" was a philosophy in Japanese schools, which still has aftereffects, but I need to know when it started.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've been through all the ebooks we've got dealing with Japanese education, and poked through JSTOR, but haven't come across anything that refers specifically to the philosophy and when it started. It might be there, even under another name, but my light searching and skimming hasn't found it.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Thank you!