Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46689-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 738 g

Reihe: Japanese Visual Culture

During the Fifteen Year War, Japan's 'little citizens' were educated via a curriculum centering patriotic and militarist ideologies. Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation, explores karuta, a poetry card game developed in this period as progressive early childhood pedagogy. As karuta became popular as an educational toy, educators and publishers soon noted karuta's engaging physical play and short slogans and poems made them ideal for conveying patriotic ideals to children.

Including reproductions of the images and translations of the poems, Kelly offers an analysis of the race, class and gender ideologies the cards conveyed, suggesting that these semingly innocuous children's toys were effective tools of a propagandist pedagogy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, Michaela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Über Autor(innen)

Michaela Kelly, Ph.D. (University of Tokyo 2016), is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the RIJS at Harvard University. A cultural anthropologist, Dr. Kelly is currently preparing an ethnography on women's social networks against the backdrop of falling fertility in contemporary Japan.