This study investigated physical activities of schools on the basis of the backgrounds to grasp what the school physical education were, how they were developed, and what the significance to the history of physical education in Korea is.
In the hist...
This study investigated physical activities of schools on the basis of the backgrounds to grasp what the school physical education were, how they were developed, and what the significance to the history of physical education in Korea is.
In the history of modern physical education, the period of the modern physical education covered 1876 to 1945 - from the year of opening her harbors to the year of the Liberation. But this study excluded 1910 to 1945 - from the year of Japan's colonization to the year of the Liberation, for the education were not performed independently and voluntarily in colony.
The period is divided into three according to clear distinctions. The first period is that of the birth of modern physical education. It starts from 1876 when the harbors were opended to the foreigners by Byong-ja-su-ho-jo-yak(丙子修護條約) and ends in 1885 when Christian private schools were established, during which the traditional military arts were educated in My-ye-hak-kyo(武藝學敎) and Won-san-hak-sa(元山學舍). The second period (1885-1904) is that of the reception, when western spots were introduced and physical education was reinforced with the importance of whole-person education. The last period is that of the fixation of modern physical education. It covers from Eul-sa-bo-ho-jo-yak(乙巳保護條約:1905) to Han-il-hab-byoung(韓日合倂:1910), during which nationalistic physical education was activated and the ideologies of modern physical education were established.
The findings of the study are as follows:
(1) The modern physical education in Korea was regarded as the means of physical training, which shows nationalistic trends.
(2) The military arts were educated as formal curricula in the first period, and the military gymnastics was in the second period. And then, in the third period, the school gymnastics was educated for 2 or 3 classes a week as a compulsory subject. In comparison with 3 classes a week of these days, the curriculum of school physical education can be thought to have been formed in this period.
(3) In the second period, Christian missionaries introduced western sports such as football, basketball, tennis, and so on, which were performed as extra-curricular activities. Such aspect gave the chance for the diverse curriculum of these days.
(4) Won-dong-hoei(運動會), which was performed in Foreign Language School for the first time, was activated continuously. This made a contribution to the popularization of physical education and the formation of the regional culture of physical education.
(5) In the process of the modernization of physical education, the concepts of recreation and sanitation added to the simple concept of physical training. And there was a try to systematize the theory of physical education. These enabled the concept of physical education to be extended.