This study aims to examine student’s strike during the Japanese colonial period not from the one-sided perspective so called Anti-Japanese movement, but from the efforts and struggle of students who attempted to address comprehensive dissatisfaction...
This study aims to examine student’s strike during the Japanese colonial period not from the one-sided perspective so called Anti-Japanese movement, but from the efforts and struggle of students who attempted to address comprehensive dissatisfaction about the educational environment in that per iod. The demands and claims raised in the student’s strike in the secondary school were largely classified into three categories : Right to Learn, National identity, and Human right. The demands presented in the secondary school student’s strike could not be presented with simple phrases. In addition, ‘Right to Learn’, ‘National identity’, and ‘Human right’ were duplicated in their demands. A variety of requirements could mean that the student’s strike was not an in-itself liberal response to a particular event, The students of the secondary school who are the subjects of the student’s strike expressed collectively the complaints and demands of the various levels that had been recognized in multiple depth and aspects. There were various reasons why students rejected their teachers, and the biggest contributors were ‘teaching methods and qualifications’ and ‘discipline, punishment and treatment of students’. Teacher rejection in secondary school is understood as a result of growth in students’ modern consciousness, which teacher and student relationships became more horizontal.