『보통학교 학도용 국어독본』과 『유년필독』 비교 연구

Abstract

This is about modifications of instructing characteristics and conversions of compiling agents' discourses on Korean textbooks during modern enlightenment period. Have pondered mainly upon implication relying upon editing agents on Korean textbooks, specifically Required Reading for Children and Korean Reading Book for Primary School Students which were published in the same year, 1907. Those two Korean textbooks obviously showed totally different traits. First of all, it is considered that Korean Reading Book for Primary School Students was not helping children to form the right morals but focused on stating theory of tuning the frontline, the theory asserting the Chosun were derived from the same root as Japan, as well as justifying Japanese invasion. On the other hand, Required Reading for Children is filled with contents which expressed the urgent historical situations so it can be considered as a sort of historical trace. As an example, the textbook had boosted and encouraged morale and self esteem among the Chosun and ardently pleaded for independence by summoning historical heroes. In other words, the study is stating that implication on both Korean Reading Book for Primary School Students and Required Reading for Children is a sum of ideologies and theories which editing agents of the time had required. Therefore, discourses of compiling agents were aggregated in both Korean Reading Book for Primary School Students and Required Reading for Children of modern enlightenment period and those two textbooks are deemed as primary sources which suggest the colonial times in Chosun.