ユネスコ国際会議に出席して : テレビ教育を中心に(所感と報告)

At the request of the Ministry of Education and the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, I attended the UNESCO Conference on Television and Adult Education in Marly-lu-loi near Paris during May 12-22, 1958. Leaving Haneda May 2, I arrived in Copenhagen via the North Pole route the following day. During two days in Denmark, I was guest of the National Broadcasting Station and the Magleass Folk High School. In Amsterdam, I visited the Dutch Broadcasting Stations at Helvsium, the Hague Peace Palace, the International Peace Tribunal, and the Amsterdam Art Museum. In Brussels, I visited the National Broadcasting Station and the World\u27s Fair. At the UNESCO Conference, there were more than sixty representatives from twenty-one nations: twelve nations in Western Europe, six in Eastern Europe in addition to Canada, the United States, and Japan. I served as a vice-president of the Conference. After the Conference and many visitations to National Radio and Tevision Stations and other institutions in Paris, I want to England and visited the BBC, the British Council, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, etc. I flew to Boston June 1 and stayed three days, then to New York for ten days. In New York, Dr. Roy E. Wenger, a professor of Kent State University of Ohio, and my former colleague at ICU, joined me. Together, we drove to Princeton, Philadelphia, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Gettsburg, and to Oxford, Ohio. Here we stayed with Dr. James W. Taylor of Miami University and currently a member of the ICU faculty. Dr. Wenger and I were guests of the Edgar Dales in Columbus, Ohio. Returning to Kent, I stayed with the Wengers. From Cleveland, I flew to Ann Arbor and spent much time in various departments of the University of Michigan and the National Educational Radio and Television Center. After a few days in Chicago and Evanston, I flew to San Francisco where I visited the Asia Foundation, the University of California, and San Jose University. After two days in Honolulu, I flew back to Haneda on July 7, concluding my round-the-world trip in sixty-six days. More specific and detailed information of my findings in the field of Audio-Visual Education, especially in the television aspects, is recorded in the Japanese language article in this Bulletin

大学教育と視聴覚教育活動

In the seventeenth century education began to look more to life, and in the following centuries, especially after Pestalozzi (1748-1827) education has put more emphasis on life. In the twentieth century increasing emphasis has been laid on life experience in education, and great changes have been made in elementary schools, while a few changes are going on in secondary schools and still fewer in colleges and universities. The traditional education which emphasized mainly book learning has been handed down for many centuries from ancient times through the Roman Empire and the middle ages to the present day university education. Under such a system the library has been an integral part of university education. There are about forty university libraries of more than one million books in the world. The Tokyo University has a stock of 1,696,293 books in its central and departmental libraries while the Kyoto University has a stock of 1,325,339 books. The library, which was once primarily a book storage for a university, has begun to offer various services to professors and students. The audio-visual services are one of the recent developments in American university libraries. In Japan, university libraries are very slow in developing audio-visual activities, with only one university, International Christian University, having an audio-visual center. ICU started its Audio-Visual Center in 1953 with two full-time professors, two assistants, one technician and one secretary. It is independent from the university library, but the two cooperate with each other. ICU is enthusiastically pioneering new educational activities in the audio-visual field which are being followed with interest by Japanese educators