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General Information
Background
Toyo Eiwa University was inaugurated in 1989 on the beautiful Yokohama
campus as a four-year undergraduate university. As early as 1884, Toyo Eiwa was established as an organization for elementary and
secondary education under the spirit of Christianity. The university is one of
the affiliates of the organization. It means that education at our university is
also based on the same spirit and idea.
General Description
Today our university consists of four different institutions which are tightly
inter-connected. The first is the four-year undergraduate university, which is
equipped with two faculties with two departments each: the Department of
Human Sciences and the Department of Early Childhood Education and
Care, in the Faculty of Human Sciences, and the Department of Social
Sciences and the Department of International Communication, in the
Faculty of Social Sciences. The second is the Graduate School, which
contains two departments: the Department of Human Sciences, and the
Department of International Cooperation. The Graduate School is located in
Roppongi, Tokyo, within the headquarters of the Toyo Eiwa Organization.
This Graduate School is open chiefly to career students. The Departments of
Human Sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels have special
training courses for clinical psychology. The third institution is the Center
for Continuing Education. The last is the kindergarten, detached from the
campus. The last two are what the university provides for the community as
social services, but at the same time, particularly the kindergarten can also
offer training opportunities for the students majoring in child care.
Ideals and Aims
One of the main ideals of our university is to cultivate the power of
non-cognitive knowledge of students in terms of liberal arts education. One
constantly meets with new, unfamiliar things in everyday life as well as in
academic life. One should cope with those things through one's own
decisions. In such cases, one's cognitive knowledge is of course not
unhelpful, but insufficient. To grasp the thing totally, to make a judgment
viewed from diverse aspects, to act in an integrated way, non-cognitive
knowledge should play a critical role. We believe that that kind of ability
can be promoted by a well-organized liberal arts education system not based
on one-way, lecture-centered methodology but on a small-scale
dialogue-oriented methodology.
This does not mean that we think little of disciplinary education. On the
contrary, upon this fundamental ground of liberal arts education, our
disciplinary education system is highly organized, since it is also our main
ideal to train students to be experts in the various fields stated above,
including child care, clinical psychology, and international relations.
Atmosphere
The students enjoy the university's quiet and beautiful environment. One of
the features of our campus is the close and intimate relationship between
students and faculty members and staff. "Reverence and Service," stemming
from the Christian spirit, is a school motto of the whole corpus of Toyo
Eiwa and is naturally expected to be shared by all members of the campus.
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