New Education and Its Outlook of Academic Achievement: Rethinking the Goals of School Education

Hiroyuki SAKUMA

This study examines contemporary issues concerning academic achievement in Japan by focusing on two figures—Kuniyoshi Obara and Peter Petersen—who were closely associated with the New Education Fellowship, founded in 1921 as a global organization of the progressive education movement. Going beyond conventional discourses on academic achievement, the study seeks to identify, in their conceptions of the human being—Zenjin (“whole person”) and der ganze Mensch (“whole person”)—a foundation for re-examining genuinely effective forms of schooling, ones oriented toward the recognition of each child as an irreplaceable individual and toward the promotion of well-being, including happiness and self-esteem.

New World of Education. Journal of WEF Japan Section

The World Education Fellowship Japan Section

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