New education for underprivileged children: the codification of children's rights in Japanese law

• Autores: Toshiko Ito
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 48, Nº. Extra 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Discoveries of childhood in history), págs. 153-167
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article examines the educational concepts that were pursued for the benefit of underprivileged children in the era of the New Education Movement. Children�s rights in Japanese modernity, as represented by the struggle to apply New Education principles to underprivileged children, are contrasted with the conventional view of childhood in the Japanese tradition. The crucial piece of legal reform that first established children�s rights, the Reformatory Law of 1900, is found to derive mostly from a mix of American science and metaphysics based on Japanised Christianity