ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Daily Life Writing from the 1930s to the 1950s, focusing mainly on guidance in expression and living, and the skills, understanding and dispositions that are formed by teaching in such a way. It examines the key role of certain activists, their motivation and the regional and political contexts in which they worked. In Japan, correction of dialects in the classroom in both spoken and written language was conducted regularly, particularly in such areas as the Tohoku, Okinawa and Ainu residential areas following the foundation of the National Language Arts subject. The Daily Life Writing movement was restored after the war, continuing its quest for guidance rooted in children's lives. Kenjiro Konishi's Classroom Revolution details practice carried out in a mountain village in Hyogo prefecture. Ichitaro Kokubun, worked actively as an education critic and children's author.
