교남교육회의 활동 연구

Abstract

This study aims at clarifying the character and activities of Kyonam Educational Association(KEA) which operated in Yeongnam region in the early 1900s. KEA held the inaugural meeting on March 3rd, 1908 with 145 members. KEA had main body in Hanseong and had branches in each Gun-unit in Kyeonsang-do. And it prescribed the member as man above 20 years old born in Kyonam or had domicile in Kyonam. The basic activities of KEA was Neo educational save-the-nation movement through the promotion of education. This fact appeared in the regulations of KEA which regulated the purpose of the association as the promotion of Kyonam education. The types of educational movements promoted by KEA can be said as following. 1) KEA prompted the educational save-the-nation movement associated with learned societies of other regions. 2) KEA spreaded the necessity of the educational save-the-nation through the meetings of discussion and lecture. 3) KEA published 『Kyonam Educational Association Monthly』 which was transactions for spreading educational enlightenment. The transactions were published from April 25th 1909(the initial issue) to May 25th 1910(the 12th issue). The meaning of KEA on the point that it was a concrete example of personages of Yeongnam region organizing a learned society and prompting practical educational movement, and the KEA Monthly which were transactions of Kyonam Educational Association is a historic datum that shows the view on education and the recognition on reality of personages of Yeongnam region 100 years ago. The achievement of KEAl had effect on the founding of many schools in Yeongnam region from the foundation of KEA to 1910.