A Study of Social Education Related to Vocational Education in Colonial Korea

本研究通过对韩国社会教育政策、韩国民众职业教育实践和话语的分析，阐明了殖民时期韩国职业教育与社会教育的关系。在殖民地时期，韩国政府试图减轻中学入学的竞争，缓解就业短缺，以维持其原有的殖民地管理政策，因此，将通过与职业教育有关的社会教育政策，如“职业补充学校”或“研究生指导”，让年轻男子留在农村地区。另一方面，朝鲜人民一直面临着激烈的入学考试竞争和工作短缺，他们通过自己建立学校和夜校来恢复他们的生活，教授职业教育。与此同时，朝鲜人民在接受朝鲜政府的某些教育政策的同时，抵制其他政策，或在这些政策被认为违背其目标和情况或不公平时向他们提出要求。最后，朝鲜政府和朝鲜人民为实现各自的目标，就殖民地朝鲜的职业教育方面的社会教育开展了建设性的工作。

This research clarified the relationship between vocational education and social education in colonial Korea, through analysis of social education policies and of educational practices and discourse by the Korean people with regard to vocational education. In colonial days, the Government-General of Korea was trying to lighten the competition of the secondary school entrance and relieve the job shortage to maintain its original colony management policies and, as a result, was going to let young men remain in rural areas, through social education policies related to vocational education such as "Vocational Supplementary School" or "the Graduate Instruction". On the other hand, the Korean people, who had always had severe entrance examination competition and job shortages, reclaimed their life by establishing by themselves schools and night schools that taught vocational education. At the same time, the Korean people, while accepting some of the educational policies of the Government-General of Korea, resisted other policies or made requests upon them when those policies were deemed to be against their aims and circumstances or to be unfair. In conclusion, the Government-General of Korea and the Korean people worked constructively, each toward its own goals, on social education with regard to vocational education in colonial Korea.