Abstract
Abstract This article examines Francis W. Parker's (1837–1902) and Tsunesaburo Makiguchi’s (1871–1944) views of harmonious community life as the goal of education through bilingual analysis of Parker’s “My Pedagogic Creed” (1897) and Makiguchi’s On the Significance of Social Aspects that Mr. Parker Says Should be Incorporated into the School Experience (1897), Research on Instruction in the Multiple Grade Classroom (1897), The Practical Application of Social Pedagogy (1901), and Reforms in Geography Instruction from the Perspective of the Economy of Learning (1919), in relation to their major works. This examination reveals that although Makiguchi appropriated the phrase “harmonious community life” from Parker’s “My Pedagogic Creed,” repeated it in Significance of Social Aspects and Social Pedagogy, and reiterated it 33 years later in his most characteristic work, The System of Value‐Creating Pedagogy (1930–34), he subscribed to its ideology before reading Parker. This examination also illustrates that bo...
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