War and Textbooks: Wartime Educational Material("Jeonsi Gyoje")s during the Korean War

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780487
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Oita Prefectual College of Arts and Culture
• Principal Investigator: PARK JEONGRAN 大分県立芸術文化短期大学, その他部局等, 講師 (80567008)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 建国期韓国 / 朝鮮戦争戦時教材 / 国語科教科書

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research unearths the wartime educational materials used in Korea during the Korean War. Provided free to students in evacuation sites, wartime educational materials accounted for the majority of the readers designed to embed nationalism. These strategic publications employed a friend-or-foe dichotomy to internalize excessive aspiration toward liberal democracy represented by the United States through a thorough expansion of cold war anti-communism. Furthermore, these materials were a means of national leadership which aimed to mold post-war citizens by targeting children who would be more easily influenced by what was a relatively specific ideology. At the same time, wartime education materials are effective sources for an understanding of the true nature and intentions behind the nationalism sought by education at that time.

Free Research Field

教育社会学