Society in September 1925. It help us to examine the educational
situation in Korea under the Japanese colonial era.
In my study, I focused on the reality of the extracurricular activities in
Korean education under the Japanese colonial rule, by investigating and
interpreting the historical material of Chosen Educational Laws and
Regulations 朝鮮敎育令, and especially by conducting study in Bunkyo No
Chosen 文敎の朝鮮.
My study followed the following steps. First, I grasped the elementary
extracurricular activities based on Chosen Educational Laws and Regulations
朝鮮敎育令.
Second, through analysing, synthesizing and evaluating the theses in Bunkyo
No Chosen 文敎の朝鮮), I examined such extracurricular activities as
observances of commemoration days, athletic meetings, going for an outing
to the suburbs 遠足, club activities, and literary exhibitions.
Third, I discussed the historical meaning of extracurricular activities in
Korean education under the Japanese colonial rule. The educational
movement including extracurricular activities put emphasis on students'
independency and creativity, and their self-government and cooperation,
and aimed to help them nurture artistic sense and their whole personality.
So the education movement was different from the educational policy of
Chosen Chongdogbu 朝鮮總督府, which tried to control Korean people
uniformly and educate them to have pro-Japanese and nationalistic
consciousness.
Therefore we need to revisit with a new perspective the essence and
intrinsic educational value of the extracurricular activities so that we may
do objective or bias-free evaluation of them and make practical application
of them.