Universal Public Schooling in Colonial Korea and Taiwan

Sun Go and Ki-Joo Park ()
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Ki-Joo Park: Sungshin Women’s University

Chapter Chapter 4 in Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education, 2019, pp 101-127 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Japan colonized Taiwan in 1895, and Korea in 1905. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan had already provided compulsory elementary education following the American model of common schools. The colonial rulers also planted a similar system in Taiwan and Korea, but the universal spread of public schooling was retarded and sluggish in the colonies. The colonial public schools were mostly restricted to the elementary level, biased toward males, segregated by ethnicity and charged tuition fees. The development of universal public schooling was not identical in the two colonies. The growth and spread of public elementary schools happened earlier and faster in colonial Taiwan than in colonial Korea. The institutional difference in school finance was key to the differential development of mass schooling in the colonies.

Keywords: Japanese colonialism; Korea; Taiwan; Public education; Common schools; Elite bias; N35; O15; I22; I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25417-9_4

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