This programme is translated by Catherine Faith Posiquit Quitlong and Sohshun
Komahashiri (Master’s Program in Education).

46th Pestalozzi Festival
https://www.education.tsukuba.ac.jp/Konrad Grob - Pestalozzi bei den Waisenkindern in Stans.

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【URL】https://forms.gle/ac915VQKKC165wbQ6Schedule March 1st, 2024 (Friday), 1:30PM to 7:30PM
Venue
First Session: International Conference Room,University Hall, University of Tsukuba
Second Session: Restaurant Plaza,University Hall, University of Tsukuba

First Session

Pestalozzi FestivalInternational Conference Room,University Hall
1:30PM to 5:00PM

Masters of Ceremonies:
Dr. Hiroshi Sato (Institute of Human Sciences)
Ms. Mahiro Yoshikawa (Master’s Program in Education)
OpeningAddress

1:30 to 1:40

Dr. Hirofumi Hamada
Director, Division of Education
Prof. Carol Inugai-Dixon（Visiting Professor）

SpecialLecture1:40 to 3:10

3:10 to 3:30

The Evolution of IB and International
Mindedness in Japan(with Consecutive Translation)
Interval

The Journey of the Pestalozzi Festival
In the early 1950s, Professor Umene Satoru of the former Tokyo University of Artsand Sciences, who later became a professor of Educational History at the Tokyo Universityof Education and the first president of Wako University, started the first Pestalozzi Abend,
together with fellow professors and students. It was held around February which happens
to coincide with the birthday and death anniversary of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. The
Pestalozzi Abend had its humble beginnings in a classroom, where professors and students
discussed education and pedagogy together with cleared desks and drinks at hand.
This informal evening gathering became an annual event of the Department ofEducation of the Tokyo University of Education around 1957, and was called the“Pestalozzi Festival”. On a Saturday in February, all professors and students hold agathering wherein the graduating class presents their theses, graduate students present
their research, and professors and visiting professors give special lectures. It finishes witha send-off party for the graduates of the department. This festival was held annually until
the closing of Tokyo University of Education in 1978, except in 1969 when the Japanese
University Protest was ongoing. During this period, department-wide debates between
professors and students were also held.
After the establishment of the University of Tsukuba in 1973 and the transfer of theInstitute of Education and undergraduate and graduate programs in education from theTokyo University of Education was completed in 1979, there was a call for the relaunch of
the Pestalozzi Festival, the symbolic event of its predecessor, the Department of Educationof the Tokyo University of Education. Hence, the Pestalozzi Festival was relaunched on
March 1st, 1979 and was attended by the professors of the Institute of Education and theirstudents.
From that day onwards, it has become an engaging open event for everyone
interested in the current issues of education and pedagogy.

Dr. Yoshiyasu Ida
Dean, Institute of Human Sciences
FinalLecture

3:30 to 4:50

ClosingAddress

4:50 to 5:00

Second Session

Pestalozzi Abend

What is Academic Research?
Finding the Answer as a Geography
Education Researcher
Dr. Teruyuki Fujita
Chair, Degree Programs in Education
Restaurant Plaza,University Hall,
University of Tsukuba
5:30PM to 7:30PM

Masters of Ceremonies:
Dr. Tomoko Tokunaga (Institute of Human Sciences)
Ms. Yina Shin (Master’s Program in Education)

The Gravesite of Pestalozzi(Laedrach, W., Heinrich Pestalozzi, Bern)On February 19th, 1827, Pestalozzi was buried between the church and the school inthe village of Bill, near Neuenhof, Switzerland. As per his will, his place of rest wasmarked by a single rose. However, after 19 years, the school needed to be renovated andthe Aargau Council decided to build a gravestone to honor Pestalozzi as a respectededucator. Therefore, the entire wall of the new school, which was facing his former place ofrest, was made into a now world-famous gravesite that bears the inscription of Pestalozzi’s
name and his famous words. (From the book “Pestalozzi” by Tomiji Nagao and Hiroshi
Fukuda, published by Shimizu Shoinin)