Tag Archive | education
Featured education book: “Shakai to seikatsu”
In September 2015, we began digitizing the education books in the Prange Collection. We’ll share interesting educational materials with you as the scanning project progresses. A list of posts in this series can be found here. Today we’re featuring “Shakai to seikatsu/社會と生活” [Society and Life] (Prange Call No. 437-0035). Published in July 1948, Shakai to seikatsu covered a variety […]
Featured education book: “Omoshiroi nendai no oboekata”
In September 2015, we began digitizing the education books in the Prange Collection. We’ll share interesting educational materials with you as the scanning project progresses. A list of posts in this series can be found here. Today we’re featuring “Omoshiroi nendai no oboekata/おもしろい年代の覺え方” [A Fun Way to Memorize the Dates of Historical Events] (Prange Call No. 438-0012). Published […]
Featured Education book – “Shakai e no tabi”
In September 2015, we began digitizing the education books in the Prange Collection. We’ll share interesting educational materials with you as the scanning project progresses. A list of posts in this series can be found here. “Shakai e no tabi” (Nara-shi: Nara Bunko, 1947) is a three volume set of social science textbooks edited by Nara […]
Featured Education book – Zenkoku koto gakko senmon gakko koka, ryokashu
In September 2015, we began digitizing the education books in the Prange Collection. We’ll share interesting educational materials with you as the scanning project progresses. A list of posts in this series can be found here. “Zenkoku koto gakko senmon gakko koka, ryokashu” (Tokyo: Kinkyojuku, 1946) is a compilation of school songs (Call No. 430-0020). Some […]
Featured Education book – Hokkaido no shakaika kyoiku
In September 2015, we began digitizing the education books in the Prange Collection. We’ll share interesting educational materials with you as the scanning project progresses. A list of posts in this series can be found here. When a Prange staff member was preparing “Hokkaido no shakaika kyoiku [北海道の社會科敎育]” (Call No. 411-0044) for digitization, one page caught […]
Featured Education book – rosters
In September 2015, we began scanning the education books. We’ll share with you interesting educational materials as the scanning project progresses. There are approximately 40 rosters within the education books (as of January 2016). These rosters, particularly from small organizations, may well be unique to the Prange Collection. See below for some examples. They are […]
Last resort – let’s insert illustrations!
As instructed by the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD), no indication of or reference to censorship could appear in publications (see this post). There could be no ellipses and no blank spaces where something was deleted, and no blackening out was permitted. Ideally, publishers would insert revised (or entirely new) text to fill the same space, but […]
Featured Education book – “Soritsu sanjushunen kinen dosokai meibo”
In September 2015, we began scanning the Prange Collection education books. We’ll share with you interesting educational materials as the scanning project progresses. Publishers were informed by the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD) that no indication of censorship could appear in their publications. There could be no blackened-out print, no blank spaces, no pasted-over areas, no […]
Digitization of the Prange Collection Education Books
We are currently scanning the Prange Collection education books, including textbooks, books on curriculum and educational philosophy, and summer workbooks. As the books are being prepared for scanning, they will be unavailable for use. The list of books that are currently unavailable can be found here. See this page for general information about the education […]
Korean-language Education Books
[A guest post written by Mika Adamson, former Student Assistant in the Prange Collection.] There are 38 books written in Korean in the Prange Education Book Collection, most of which deal with elementary school education. Subjects include the Korean language, arithmetic, science, music, calligraphy, Korean history, and even swimming. Presumably, the books were used in […]
Gordon W. Prange Collection 