근대 한국의 교과서 검정 제도 성립과 수신교과서 검정 — 『보통학수신서』 검정 청원본 분석을 중심으로 —

Abstract

The Residency-General of Korea has established and implemented a new policy in order to secure the education of Korea, which became the ‘protectorate’ of Japan. In 1908, the enactment and promulgation of the “Regulations on Textbook Inspection” was also intended to control the school education and the contents of education through the textbook inspection and censorship. The policy to control the textbooks used by schools was implemented in Western countries as well as in Japan and Ching China at the modern education. The state or government tried to intervene actively with textbooks that have a direct influence on education implementing textbook inspection or government published textbooks. In this study, after analyzing the inspection copy of “Pot'onghak susinsŏ(Ordinary Ethics)” which was censored with “Regulations on Textbooks Inspection”, the followings were found out. First, the textbook inspection was conducted actually according to the procedure of the regulation after the “regulations on textbook inspection” was promulgated. Second, the censors who were in charge of the inspection, censored the contents of the textbook in accordance with the standards of social and political as well as educational aspects. And most revision requests only as an expression appear to have applied educational standards considering. However, as a result of examining the original texts of the textbook that demanded correction or deletion, the contents of the society, the country, patriotism, loyalty, duties and rights of the people took a lot of points. In the process of inspecting the textbooks by department of education, practically residency-general, it applied social and political criterion such as “to assert independence and to restore national rights,” “to make uncomfortable expressions for nationalism and deontology,” “to inspire partiotism” to the textbook and did not authorize the publishing of “Pot'onghak susinsŏ(Ordinary Ethics)” judged to be problematic in these standards.