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Tadayoshi Sakamoto
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Recently many bullied children have committed suicide, and it is unfortunately through their posthumous writings that modern children's responses to their surroundings are most tangibly revealed. So I suggest that we use such bullied children's writings as a teaching material to feel directly their "difficulties" in a cruel compulsory "gang" association. By this means, I hope, we can lead children to confront and consider not only the victims' but also their own difficulties in human relations. If we want to make literary education more rooted in our daily life, this is, it seems to me, the very approach to it.
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Hirotaka Hashimoto
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As our lives become more superficial, our language gets less substantial. If so, then our cognitive and expressive power, which are based on the linguistic system, inevitably suffer a considerable loss with the result that our way of thinking becomes more and more abstract. Children live just in this critical situation, and so the instructor of literature must take the fact into account above all. What is important, it seems to me, is that the instructor regards each student's interpretation of a literary work as his or her form of self-expression. In so doing, the instructor can help students acquire self-recognition by making them exchange their own ideas in an experimental situation. I think that such achievement of self-recognition will also improve their way of life effectively.
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Norihiko Kondo
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The notice of this special issue attracted my attention when I was reading the previous issue of Japanese Literature. It was titled "Critical Literary Education," and there I read the following opinion; children are now deprived of opportunities to think freely in the current school system, and even the teacher is so inextricably involved in the system that he or she cannot think outside its pedagogic paradigm. In this essay, I will make an attempt to locate the cause of this problem and find an approach to breaking through this paradigmatic cage with my own teaching career as a model. I will make two suggestions in conclusion.
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Kiyomi Igarashi
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How can we teach classical literature more systematically in junior high school? This paper is a report of my teaching experience in a third grade class, where we read Basho Matsuo's Oku-no-Hosomichi as an integral part of the three year literary teaching program. In this class I made much more use of handouts than a textbook. The students' reactions to this method are clearly shown in their papers.
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Masataka Kato
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Today young people are brought up in the visual world of TV programs and computer games or in what is called Katakana culture, so that they tend to avoid literature. This is why many students but a few "bookworms" are reluctant to study classical works in a textbook. Such students also tend to regard archaic or obsolete words as if they were of a foreign language. This situation, it seems to me, makes a "regular" teaching of classical literature almost impossible. It is true that students have to learn a certain number of grammatical rules and expand their vocabulary, but mere cramming would not be enough for students to discover and recognize their own identity in a historical context, though in fact it might serve to make them more "classics-phobic." In this essay, I will give an example, although imperfect, of a "self-edited textbook" in the hope of improving the teaching method of classical works.
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Seiji Tsuruta
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One way to cultivate a higher perception of students towards the status quo into which they are now unconsciously trapped, is to take as a textbook such a work that describes pathological conditions of our modern society or abuses of the school system. Such a critical textbook would make the students go through an important literary experience - identification or defamiliarization, for example -, which would in turn stimulate them to take a critical stance towards their own present self as well as society in general. From this viewpoint, I will pursue the possibility of "Kodomo no Iru Eki," which symbolically depicts the confined situations of children, as a textbook.
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Megumi Ushiyama
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"Neko no Jimusho" allegorically depicts the systematic bullying of bureaucracy. We might compare this bullying to that daily committed in school today. We find reality in these characters, the bullying cats and the bullied "Kama-neko" cats, so poignantly that we cannot but perceive our own real world in this fictional space. So we should focus upon how this problem is dealt with in the tale. What is the meaning, for example, of the lion as a deus ex machina, who solves it at one blow? From this viewpoint, I will consider the author's critical stance.
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Miyuki Yonemura
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Critics have only marginally treated the Groom in "Donguri to Yamaneko." The reason is double; while they have difficulty finding what aspect of the author's real life this character reflects, these critics, in a sense, have been able to create the so-called Kenji myth by repressing this nuisance. Instead my argument here is to relocate the text in its historical context, and to point out the importance of that very Groom in making us recognize the serious educational problems of the late Taisho Era. In the figure of the Groom is epitomized the hierachical correspondence between academic career and social status. There is also the reflection of the local writer's expectancy and despair toward the Japanese school system expressed in his lecture notes and descriptions of the night school.
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Takehiro Iwashita
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Makio Ono
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Kiyoshi Komori
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Shuzo Muneyuki
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Genichiro Fukawa
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Shohei Nashiki
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