In this treatise I have classified the period into three stages which Korea was under the control of Japan from 1910 to 1945 and have studied the changing process of the geography education.
In the first period(1910-1922) the Japanese began to colon...
In this treatise I have classified the period into three stages which Korea was under the control of Japan from 1910 to 1945 and have studied the changing process of the geography education.
In the first period(1910-1922) the Japanese began to colonize the Korean people and they did not teach Korean geography in the primary schools for fear that geography eductaion might inspire the racial spirit into Koreans. Inevitably the Korean students had to be satisfied with some geographical contents in the Korean and Japanese readers.
Moreover the various geography textbooks which had written by Koreans before the
rule of Japan were regarded as seditious books and also forbade to use for them.
In the second period(1922-1938) the Korean students could learn geography as a
regular subject in the primary school. The various geography textbooks which had been written or edited by the Japanese scholars were published in Korea and Japan. The qualities of them were excellent. But the Japanese treated Korea as a territorial section of Japan and when they taught Korean students Korean geography, they had taken special care of the possible contents of inspirng the racial spirit. And besides, they tried to Japanize us Koreans through the geography education.
In the last period(1938-1945) the Imperial Japanese were busily engaged in the
aggressive war. Accordingly the contents of the geography education was also used for rationalizing the aggressive war and for Japanizing the Korean people. Consequently the contents of geography education had been degenerated into being supported of the Imperialists' aggressive war.