THE HAPPINESS PEDAGOGY IN TSUNESSABURO MAKIGUTI (A TRIP THROUGH THE UNKNOWN REVOLUTIONARY JAPANESE PEDAGOGUE)*
Angela Santi
Keywords: Pedagogy of happiness, theory, practice, self-fulfillment, value, truth, meaning
Pages: 109-120
Abstract
The goal of this essay is to analyse the theory/practice relation with the help of Tsunessaburo Makiguti's thought. Makiguti is a Japanese pedagogue who was thinking against the objectives of the education in his time associated with military training. To Makiguti, the meaning of education should be dissociated from technical training or knowledge transmission, but should be connected with happiness and self-fulfillment of the students. Overcoming the theory-practice dichotomy is achieved when education is linked to life, and there is no theory without its being filled with life and its needs.
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