전후 일본에 있어서의 외국인 학교 정책의 전개 양상

Abstract

In postwar Japan, the policies of　schools for ethnic Korean (Chosun schools) basically determined the policies of foreign schools until the 1990s, and the logic supporting the policy changes was to correct ethnic discrimination against the colonized. During this period, the policies of schools for ethnic Korean were mainly run by local governments, and their main concern was on the stabilization of the schools' legal and institutional status. However, since the 1990s, the policies of the foreign schools could not be directly applied to the policies of the schools for ethnic Korean anymore because Japanese society became more multi-ethnic and multi-cultural by the inflow of ‘new comers’. Because of the discourse and practice of ‘multi-cultural symbiosis education’, the schools of ‘new comers’ and the schools for ethnic Korean came to share the same problems, resulting in the overall expansion in the rights of foreign schools. Until the 1990s, the changes in policies of foreign schools were basically ‘reactions’ to the social movements. In the 2000s, however, the Japanese government began to take on a more proactive approach. An important point in this change is that the Japanese government only provided benefits to the international schools in accordance to its national globalization strategy, and excluded other foreign schools. The policies of the foreign schools since the 2000s are completely disconnected from the historical background of the ethnic minorities' education issues, thus showing a huge gap from reality.