Henry Dyer: Engineer and Educational Innovator

• Autores: David Allsobrook, Gordon Mitchell
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 33, Nº. 2, 1997, págs. 433-457
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Henry Dyer (1848-1918), a Scottish engineer who had studied under William McQuorn Rankine at Glasgow University, was appointed founding Principal of the Imperial College of Technology, Tokyo (now Tokyo University), in 1872. Leading a team of brilliant young British scientists, including William Ayrton and John Perry, Dyer used that unique institution as an important instrument in the transformation of the primitive Japanese economy, and for creating practical courses in engineering which were pedagogically and scientifically in advance of those then existing in the West. After his return to Scotland in 1882 he devoted much energy to disseminating the results of his Japanese experience, offering the College he had created as a model for the development of technological education in Britain. He also wrote extensively and sympathetically on many aspects of Japanese society, culture and religion, on the assumption that Japan was becoming "the Britain of the East".