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The first modern textbook published by the Chosŏn government, the People’s Elementary Reader (PER), marked a significant departure from traditional learning both in terms of content and form and played a pivotal role in introducing western-style learning. However, an absence of a thorough consideration of the PER’s obvious moral em-phasis provides only a partial picture of the complexity of late nineteenth-century educational reform in Korea. A close examination of the historical context of edu-cational reform and the PER’s publication in comparison with its American and Japanese counterparts demonstrates moral education was a necessary component of modern education and the modernization drive. As the Koreans saw useful parallels with their own Confucian traditions, educational officials replaced western ethics with Confucian moral education. Thus, the preservation of moral cultivation in the textbook along with the introduction of western-style learning was the embodiment of the slogan “Eastern Way, Western Technology” (tongdo sŏgi). This type of accommodationist form of education conformed to modern (at that time) educational trends and facilitated the introduction of western-style learning by appealing to Confucian yangban sensibilities.

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Abstract
 INTRODUCTION
 I. LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY EDUCATIONAL TRENDS AND TEXTBOOKS IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
  The American Case T
  The McGuffey Readers : Religion vs. Morality
  The American Model and Japanese Educational Reform  
  American and Japanese Influences on the PER
 II. THE PEOPLE’S ELEMENTARY READER AND WESTERN-STYLE LEARNING
 III. MORAL EDUCATION IN THE AMERICAN READERS AND THE PER
 CONCLUSION
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• LEIGHANNE YUH [ an assistant professor in the Department of Korean History at Korea University, Korea. ]

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