Special Collection

The collection of Oraimono, textbooks, and books which dealing with primary education from the beginning of the Meiji era. It was established by Mr. Mochizuki Gunshiro, as one of the commemorative projects of the 50th anniversary of Tokyo Aoyama Normal School in 1926.

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The materials donated by the editorial committee for the history of education led by Mr. Shigejiro Matsuura. The committee completed the "History of the Development of the Education System since the Meiji Era" in 1938 and when it was dissolved, materials were donated to Tokyo Oizumi Normal School, one of the predecessors of Tokyo Gakugei University. The contents include a draft in Mr. Matsuura's own handwriting, educational regulations, elementary school textbooks, and materials related to the history of education.

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Representative textbooks, educational books, and other materials donated to Japan from the United States in early 1947 (approximately 350 volumes and 13 sets). In addition to the Ministry of Education and the Civil Information and Educational Division of the GHQ, the American Education Library was established at 11 institutions across the country, including Tokyo Gakugei University. The library was renamed the Textbooks and Curriculum Library (T.C.L.) in July 1948, with the addition of Japanese textbooks and curriculum guidelines. At Tokyo Gakugei University, this library was first established in the Women's Division of the Second Normal School, the predecessor of the Oiwake School, and absorbed later the American Education Library (A.E.L.) which has been established in the Setagaya Branch School in 1949.

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This collection contains the materials such as Oraimono (Japanese ancient textbooks), Sugoroku, textbooks, which were used for primary education from the late Edo to the pre-war period.

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The collection of Sugoroku from the Edo to Meiji period. These traditional Japanese board games had contributed to the education for children and ordinary citizens.

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The Institute For Educational Leadership (IFEL) is the name of educational leaders courses which were provided by the Ministry of Education and CIE (GHQ/SCAP Civil Information and Educational Section). It was carried out eight times during 1948 and 1952.
The aim of those courses was training educational leaders (1st-4th) and retraining pedagogy faculty of universities (5th-8th).
The research results of this training course, the "Educational Instructors Training Research Collection," was compiled by the participants in each of the 25 courses, and is a valuable document that shows the actual status of IFEL.
Many of the originals in the university's collection are from the 5th and 6th lectures held in 1950, especially those related to the management and educational content of the elementary schools offered at the university.

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This microfiche collection is a part of the Gordon W. Prange Collection held in McKeldin library, University of Maryland. Dr. Gordon W. Prange(1910-1980, a chief historian in GHQ) was a professor of history at the University of Maryland, and he had tried to preserve Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Occupation of Japan after their censorship. Tokyo Gakugei University Library holds microfiche version of magazines mainly published from 1945 to 1949.

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This collection contains books, periodicals mainly dealing with philosophy, history, literature, and social science. In 1947, Tokyo First Girls' Normal School, one of the predecessors of Tokyo Gakugei University, bought them from the Central Federation of Nippon Culture.

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The collection of books about ancient Greek thoughts and culture, principle of Education, or philosophy of education, which were previously owned by Mr. Saburo Segawa, the ex-professor of Tokyo Gakugei University. It was donated by his wife in 1969.

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The textbooks, books, periodicals about mathematics, which were previously owned by Ms. Toshiko Kaji, the ex-professor of Tokyo Gakugei University. It was donated in 2005.

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The collection of textbooks and books about drawing and art, including the Japanese first textbook of drawing: "Seiga shinan". It was donated in 2011 by Mr. Shiro Nishimura, the corporate adviser of Sakura color Products Corporation.

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This collection contains about 320 choral scores, poems and music CDs of Japanese famous poet Shuntaro Tanikawa. In 2017, he was invited as a lecturer to a choral music course held by the music department of the university, and the chronicle "Koe ga sekai wo dakishimemasu" (the voices hold the world) was published by Tokyo Gakugei University press. In the process of making this book, his collection of choral scores were donated to the library. The collection was named "Koe no Aurora" (Aurora of voices) after a passage from the poem "Gassho" (chorus) written for the book.

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 (Some items are in-library use only.)

Comprehensive collection of textbooks and instruction books for elementary and junior high schools, as well as high school textbooks published by various publishers.

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 (Excluding the latest two revisions)

A comprehensive collection of course of study from kindergarten to elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as special-needs schools (for the disabled, blind, and deaf).

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 (Excluding the latest two revisions)

This collection includes books, periodicals and newsletters dealing with human rights education, integration education and labor movement of teachers. They were collected by the Sumida Minshu Kenkyusho (the institute of Sumida democratic education) which has been established by Sumida branch of Tokyo teacher's union at April 1968, and donated to Tokyo Gakugei University in 2009.

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This collection consists of books, periodicals, book series, mainly published between 1920 and 1930.

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This collection contains the materials about British education after 1900, and it also has some of other European countries. It covers wide-range of education stage from kindergarten to university.

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This collection includes books about education theory, history of education, and education method in France, published after 17th century.

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Microfiches of periodicals, catalogues and monographs about Russian/Soviet Union's education in 19-20th century.

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The first edition of Japanese-English dictionary edited by James Curtis Hepburn (published in 1867), and other 18 Japanese/Asian language dictionaries edited by non-Japanese people from the end of Edo era to the Meiji era. Most of these are rare originals.

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Books and other resources about special education in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France, published after 1956.

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Books which were mainly published between mid-17th and 19th centuries, including rare books about French education.

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This collection contains 418 writings and lectures of Rudolf Steiner and 272 writings of his apprentices, which mainly deals with religion, education and art.

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Microfiche collection issued by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) which selects, indexes, and abstracts documents and reports dealing with education and educational research. It holds most of the full text of documents recorded in RIE (Resources in Education).

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Textbooks which were used in Finland, Germany, France and South Korea in 1960-1970's.

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