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Competing concepts of publicness in the creation of a modern people in the history of modern education in Korea: 1894–1919

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Abstract The term ‘publicness’ is a keyword to explain the creation of a people in the history of modern education in Korea in which the relationship between the ruled and… Click to show full abstract

Abstract The term ‘publicness’ is a keyword to explain the creation of a people in the history of modern education in Korea in which the relationship between the ruled and the ruling power rapidly changed from the perspective of continuity and discontinuity. In Korea, the term has been commonly used in three different contexts, and its meanings have changed since the 1894 Gabo Reform, the first reform for the modernization of Korea. Even when the ruling power changed in 1910 with Japanese colonialism, the ruling class took the meaning of publicness as a governing institution (管制的 公共性), which had a very weak sense of publicness as an ethical principle of fairness (Gong [公]) or as public benefit and opinion (Gong [共]). In contrast, the resisting power, which was fully established throughout the colonial era from 1910 to 1945, lacked the sense of publicness as a ruling institution, but embraced the two other concepts of publicness. This historical experience of the competing concepts of publicness materialized into the creation of a modern people through law and education even in the post-colonial period of modern Korea. Generally speaking though, the creation of a modern people in Korea has been strongly affected by the concept of publicness as a ruling institution through a nationalist education.

Keywords: creation; modern people; concepts publicness; education; creation modern

Journal Title: Educational Philosophy and Theory
Year Published: 2019

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