A Study on a Civic Education Design at the Early Postwar Educational Reforms: Based upon the Relation to Recent Reforms of Moral Education

The purpose of this study is to survey Japanese moral education in future, by reexamination a civic education design after World WarⅡ, because “citizenship education” has been requested in recent reforms of moral education. For example, moral education in “the new course of Study” requires rearing Japanese who have identity, and new subject “Public” has been newly established in Subject Area “Civics” for high school students etc.So we would like to notice the design after WWⅡ in that we admit same directions with recent reforms of moral education and get some hints from the design. At first, we make sure of the background and basic design of that. Next, we analyze the contents of “Book of civic study for national elementary school teachers (Kokumingakko Koumin kyoushiyousho)” and arrange specific characteristics of the design