백범 김구의 안악․신민회 시기 교육활동

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to understand Baekbeom Kim Gu’s educational activity in the period of Anak and Sinminhoe and then examine its implications. As a study method to understand Baekbeom Kim Gu’s educational activity in the period of Anak and Sinminhoe, this study focused on literature examination. In order to analyze data on him, this study used both a descriptive method that collects, classifies and examines Baekbeom’s books and research materials on him and then analyzes and describes related data, and an analytic method that deduces the implications of his educational campaign from the above data and then interprets it. Study findings are as follows:Baekbeom was an national independent campaigner, a peaceful national reunification activist, a culturist, a world peace campaigner, a politician and a revolutionist who wanted to establish not a single government which was divided into the South and the North but a unified independent sovereign state as well as a real educator and an educational campaigner. From adolescence to the age of 74 years when he was assassinated, he was constantly emphasizing the crucial role of education. In particular, in the period of Anak and Sinminhoe, he firsthand established schools, served as a teacher, and lived as an educational campaigner. Implications of this study are as follows:First, Baekbeom was a real educator, educational campaigner and educational practitioner who put his educational principles into practice at anytime and anywhere the right conditions were present. Second, Baekbeom presented educational visions as an educator and took the lead in that field. Third, Baekbeom held a key post in the modern and contemporary history of domestic education, which could not be ignored.