There are 3 aims of the present study : 1) To trace the change of curriculum in Korean primary and secondary schools towards the end of the Chosun Dynasty, 2) to investigate the school systems and educational content of that period and to explore the ...
There are 3 aims of the present study : 1) To trace the change of curriculum in Korean primary and secondary schools towards the end of the Chosun Dynasty, 2) to investigate the school systems and educational content of that period and to explore the Japanese curriculum policy with the view of colonizing Korea to their advantage, and 3) to study Korea resistance to the above policy, the Korean Government's Daily Bulletin was frequently referred to inn order to gather curriculum data to be analyzed. Regarding data related to private school education, the historics of the schools concerned were the sources of the study.
The results of the study show that :
(1) the overall education curricula were directed toward suppressing independent and Korean autonomous education.
(2) the number of hours that the Korean language was taught gradually decreased in favor of the Japanese language.
(3) the teaching of Korean history gradually gave way to that of Japanese history.
(4) general education was made light of while vocational education was stressed.
(5) the censorship regulations on textbooks increased.
(6) educational opportunities were limited by controlling the number of government schools.
(7) the censorship policies of control and restriction against private schools was gradually strengthened.
(8) course descriptions were rewritten in concrete terms.
An exhaustive study to the history of the curriculum of each subject remains to be studied.