Korean Catholicism was considered as heretical religion and persecuted several times until the time of Enlightenment after its introduction(1784) to Korea. However, after the Open-Port resistance to the West was gradually weakened and the West became the model of a new era. Modernization was the greatest challenge of our nation during Enlightenment, and education was one of the basic methods of modernization. The government was in a hurry in introducing modern education to nation, especially Protestants doing very active educational affairs. Catholicism facing the challenges of the nation promoted national movements, including educational activities. The main educational activity of Catholicism was the operation of Gong-so schools. Korean Catholic educational activities were weak in terms of the size and the number, compared to Protestants but Gong-so school movement was the center of Catholic education. Especially, Jeolla province had the largest number of Christians in the country during the Enlightenment so it had many missionaries sent from the Korean Catholic. From the beginning of Catholicism, faithful Catholic towns were formed in Jeolla province and Gong-so was established by Catholic believers who had escaped from Catholic persecution. During the period of Catholic persecution, from Seoul and Gyeong-gi province, through the Chung-cheong, Catholic believers came down to Go-san, Ik-san, Jin-an, Jeon-ju, Keum-gu, the mountainous region of Sun-chang, Tae-in, Jang-su in Jeolla province and settled there. Jeolla province had Catholic believers more than 20% in the nation during the time of Enlightenment and the number of Gong-so schools and the student in them was the largest in the nation. Baudounet, missionary, began to operate the four Gong-so schools in Jin-an, Go-san region and elsewhere in 1889. During the time of Enlightenment the number of Gong-so schools was steadily rising. The number of Catholic believers and Gong-so also increased. Gong-so schools were 10% in average compared to the number of Gong-so, students maintained in average by 8% compared to the devotees. The share of Gong-so schools in Jeolla province was 26.8% in the nation and the students in them accounted for 14.7%. During Patriotic Enlightenment period after the Eul-sa treaty signed in 1905, many schools were built across the nation on the purpose of cultivating student's capability and regaining sovereignty. The Residency-General published many educational laws such as Elementary School Act and Private School Act with the intention of controlling and oppressing national education and making the foundation of colonial education. Catholicism in Jeolla province received permissions, influenced by the policies of the Residency-General and ran Go-san Doe-jae Tai-geuk Gye-myeong School, Ik-san Na-ba-wi Gye-myeong School, Keum-gu Su-ryu In-myeong School, Jin-an Eo-eun-dong Yeong-sin School. Among of the schools, the Tai-geuk Gye-myeong School also installed the institute teaching measurement that was a very important skill at the time. But the Catholic Gong-so schools could not maintain the constant number of students. There were many cases in which Gong-so schools came into being temporarily and then disappeared. Student's number in the schools was very fluctuating. One reason why Catholic modern educational movement and activities didn't receive much attention from our history was that they were too weak. Another reason is that most of Catholic Gong-so schools didn't receive the permissions from the Residency-General in the time of Enlightenment and haven’t been continued today.
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Ⅰ. 머리말 Ⅱ. 개화기 전라도 천주교의 ‘공소학교’ 1. 공소학교의 설립 현황 2. 공소학교 운영 실태 Ⅲ. 통감부 시기 전라도 천주교 ‘보통학교’ 1. 고산 되재 ‘태극계명학교(太極啓明學校)’ 2. 익산 나바위 ‘계명학교(啓明學校)’ 3. 금구 수류 ‘인명학교(仁明學校)’ 4. 진안 어은동 ‘영신학교(永新學校)’ Ⅳ. 맺음말 <참고문헌>
본 학회는 "역사학의 발전과 민족문화의 창달에 이바지한다"는 목표하에 도내의 역사학자들을 주축으로 1976년에 창립된 이래 30년 이상의 연륜을 이어온 정통 역사학회이다. 수차례의 학술대회를 개최하였을 뿐 아니라, 학술지 '전북사학'을 30호까지 발간하면서 지역 사학 발전의 토대를 놓았다는 평가를 받고 있다. 본 학회는 현재 약 240여명의 회원을 두고 있으며, 격월로 임원회의와 월례발표회를 개최하고 있다. 매 발표회에 실제로 참여하는 인원이 항상 30명이 넘는다. 대부분의 역사관련 학회가 주로 대학교수나 강사들로 구성되어 있는 데 비해 전북사학회는 대학교수, 강사는 물론 학예사, 연구원, 중등학교 역사담당교사 등 역사와 관련된 다양한 구성원들로 이루어져 있다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 대학에서 연구한 역사학에 관한 이론을 중등학교 교육 현장에 올바로 적용하여 이론과 실제를 하나로 만들려는 것이 향후 전북사학회의 지향점이다.
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간행물명
전북사학 [JEONBUK SAHAK ; The Jeonbuk Historical Journal]