This study aims to trace the developmental process of Korean kindergarten education from its genesis until 1945, the year of Korean Independence from Japanese colony, and to organize it in a chronicle order. It is not a historical study in the sense o...
This study aims to trace the developmental process of Korean kindergarten education from its genesis until 1945, the year of Korean Independence from Japanese colony, and to organize it in a chronicle order. It is not a historical study in the sense of requiring a theory of history but a chronicle arrangement of various data and materials related to Korean kindergarten education during this period.
For convenience sake, each table presented here was designed to indicate each ten-year period and followed by some explanation for important events.
Two characteristics of Korean kindergarten education before 1945 seem apparent and can be summarized in the following ways: First, the movement of kindergarten education during the Japanese colony was characterized by Korean enthusiam for education through which Korean people want to liberate their country from Japan. Second, although it was a little bit late, Korean kindergarten education in this period had kept pace with the world movement of kindergarten education under the influence of America and Japan.