일제 강점기 대구공립여자고등보통학교의 지역교육사적 의의

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This study examines the establishment, administration, and student activities of Daegu Public Girls’ High School, founded in 1926, in order to elucidate the nature of girls’ secondary education under Japanese colonial rule and to situate the school within the broader context of the modern history of regional education. Analysis of historical records indicates that the school was founded in the circumstances of the Self-Strengthening Movement of the 1920s, the growing public demand for women’s education, and the financial and organizational involvement of local elites. An examination of the curriculum and institutional practices reveals a dual structure characteristic of girls’ schools under colonial rule: while the official program emphasized domesticity and compliance in line with Japanese imperial educational policy, students simultaneously developed national consciousness and engaged in political resistance. The 1930 “Crying Incident,” in which students collectively protested following the Gwangju Student Independence Movement, demonstrates that such schools could also function as sites for anti-colonial institutional resistance, rather than merely functioning as instruments of colonial governance. By analyzing a regional public girls’ school that has received limited scholarly attention, this study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the complexities inherent in women’s education during the colonial period and highlights the role of girls’ secondary schools as both disciplinary spaces and incubators of political subjectivity.

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