日帝下의 韓國 基督敎 敎育과 그 特性에 관한 硏究

Abstract

This study was intended to investigate Korean Christian education and its characteristic under Japanese imperialism(from the 1920s and the 1930s). As a result, the following conclusion was drawn: First, the Protestant in Korea began to engage in missionary work by means of medical and educational services in the mid-nineteenth century. Korea was domestically confused due to the confrontational conflict between Daewonkun and Minbi, the transaction of government offices by bribery, Yangban's exploitation of the peasantry, and the like. Only educational institutions existed for a handful of Yangban's children. This background became the great impediment to engaging in missionary work but served as the makeshift to bear testimony to gospels for the populace and propagandize Christian education. Second, Christianity in the 1920s and the 1930s was confronted with the dark age on account of Japanese crackdown on religions, the coercion of Christian believers into visiting the Shinto shrine, the policy to annihilate national education and the like while staging the national liberation movement and the populace liberation movement through the instrumentality of educational institutions. Japanese external coercion aroused religious characteristics such as inspiring Christian believers' inner faith, and so on. Third, church educational activity was prevalent as part of the national educational movement. The academic workshop was largely responsible for providing Christians with testimony to gospels and education oriented to knowledge dissemination. The summer children Bible school provided children with the same activity of teaching the Bible and Hangul(Korean alphabet) that educational institutions did. The church providing people with Christian education under Japanese imperialism performed a great role as the educational institution for the populace, assisted the populace in being enlightened, awakened and nurturing their religious faith and made a great contribution to society as the national educational institution. Fourth, the weekly Bible school was the temporary school intended for 6-and 7-year children for one year prior to their entrance to school, which taught children church service and the Bible, play, Korean language, arithmetic, song and the like. The Bible club movement began with the missionary 'Kwon Se-yeol' teaching homeless children, made the reader for children with the Bible as material and allowed them to engage in living a religious life. The church could provide schooling with children along with the gospels as they needed schooling at that time. The bad educational condition of our Korean people became the favorable one for Christianity. Fifth, the Protestant Christian education under Japanese imperialism took root deeply in the Korean society with the missionary will, thereby coming to take on educational character. Korean Christian education peformed a role as the Korean language education institution by instilling the spirit of national autonomy as well as striving to do away with the illiteracy of the populace. Christian education under Japanese imperialism pursued the essence of Christian education such as the mission of missionary work, disciple training, social service activity and the like. This makes a good illustration of the characteristic of Christian education. It can be seen that engaging in activity makes a good indication of the characteristic of Christian education.