Gakugei University of Tokyo

Gakugei University of Tokyo
founding	1873/1949
Sponsorship	state
place	Koganei , Tokyo Prefecture
country	Japan
management	Deguchi Toshisada
Students	5,927 (May 2010)
Employee	912 (May 2010)
Website	www.u-gakugei.ac.jp

Koganei campus

The Gakugei University of Tokyo ( Japanese 東京学芸大学 , Tōkyō gakugei daigaku , dt. "University of the Liberal Arts Tokyo", short: Gakugeidai ( 学芸大 )) is a state educational university in Japan . It is located in Koganei in Tokyo Prefecture .

history

The university was founded in 1949 through the merger of the four state normal schools . The four were:

Tokyo First Normal School ( 東京第一師範学校 , Tōkyō dai-ichi shihan gakkō , in Setagaya ),
the Second Normal School Tokyo ( 東京第二師範学校 , Tōkyō dai-ni shihan gakkō , in Koganei),
the Third Normal School Tokyo ( 東京第三師範学校 , Tōkyō dai-san shihan gakkō , in Nerima ), and
the youth normal school Tokyo ( 東京青年師範学校 , Tōkyō his shihan gakkō , in Chōfu ).

First normal school in Tokyo

Tokyo First Normal School was founded in 1873 as a prefectural teacher training institution. In 1900 she moved to Aoyama, Minato-ku , and in 1908 it was renamed Aoyama Prefectural Normal School ( 東京府青山師範学校 , Tōkyō-fu Aoyama shihan gakkō ). In 1936 she moved to Shimouma, Setagaya, but the name remained unchanged. In 1943 she and the Prefectural Women's Normal School (in Koishikawa, Bunkyō ) were merged to form a state educational college - the First Normal School Tokyo.

Second normal school in Tokyo

The Second Normal School Tokyo was founded in 1908 as the Toshima Prefectural Normal School ( 東京府豊島師範学校 , Tōkyō-fu Toshima shihan gakkō ). In 1943 it became a state educational college - the Tokyo Second Normal School. It was on the west side of Ikebukuro Station , and in April 1945, during the Pacific War , its school buildings were destroyed. In 1946 she moved to what is now the Koganei campus.

Third normal school Tokyo

The Third Normal School Tokyo was founded in 1938 as the Prefecture Normal School Ōizumi ( 東京府大泉師範学校 , Tōkyō-fu Ōizumi shihan gakkō ). In 1943 it became a state educational college and was renamed the Third Normal School Tokyo.

Youth Normal School Tokyo

The Tokyo Normal School for Young People was founded in 1920 as a prefectural school for the training of agriculture teachers. In 1935 it became the Prefectural Education Institute for Youth School Teachers and in 1940 moved to Chofu. In 1944 it was renamed to its current name.