1910년대 조선총독부의 교육정책과 재조일본인 교원 통제: 조선교육(연구)회를 중심으로

Abstract

In an intention to successfully control Japanese teachers in the Common School, the Bureau of Educational Affairs in the Government-General of Chosun authorized the reformation of the Kyungseong Educational Association, established on behalf of the education of Japanese settlers by prominent leaders in the Japanese colonial community, to become the Chosun Educational Association in 1910. Although it required colonial authority to take initiative, the Japanese settler leaders remained influential. The combined lack of resources and disinclined authority made it so that the official bulletin was the only activity granted to the Chosun Educational Association. By entrusting the general management of the youth dormitory facility to the Chosun Educational Association and utilizing it as an affiliated organization, the colonial authority engaged teachers for an efficient cost. Colonial authorities removed influential leaders in the Japanese settlement community from the educational administrative field by reorganizing the Chosun Educational Association to the Chosun Educational Society in 1915. Moreover, the authorities prevented the voicing of concerns or discontentment by forbidding any criticisms on the policy of fostering national loyalty and honesty based on the Imperial Edict on Education. It was a precautionary act by the colonial authorities influenced by the prevailing opinion that the unnecessariness of the loyal and honest education in the Japanese settlement community affected Japanese teachers. Besides publishing the bulletin for Chosun Educational Society, their activities were restrained to investigate the general educational methodology under the authority’s policy. It was not only a means of controlling teachers but also of taking advantage of their expertise. Nevertheless, as a consequence of these restrictions, teachers became cooperative and yet acted passively on the “research on the educational methodology” of the colonial authority.