The history of modern Japanese education : Constructing the national school system,1872-1890 / Benjamin Duke.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-406) and index.

Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan -- Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education -- Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan -- Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868 -- The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871 -- Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model -- The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872 -- The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873 -- The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872 -- The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873 -- Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876 -- Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876 -- The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882 -- Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878 -- Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877 -- The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876 -- The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879 -- Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model -- The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880 -- The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885 -- Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889 -- The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890.