ABSTRACT

This paper concerns the ‘education fever’ that marked the early Korean immigrant community’s private schooling initiatives in territorial Hawaiʻi (1898–1959). Drawing on the cases of two Korean private schools – the Korean Central School and the Korean Christian Institute – the paper examines the tensions and conflicts between white American missionary educators and Korean immigrant educators surrounding both the operation of the schools and the pedagogical practices deemed appropriate to the education of ‘Oriental’ students in the US imperial space. These two cases demonstrate that Korean immigrants in territorial Hawaiʻi were persistent and innovative in their efforts to appropriate Americanisation for their own national, communal and individual interests. Moreover, educators and parents challenged colonial educational practices by foregrounding how the Christian pedagogy of their private schools served to differentiate them from other (non-Christian) Asian immigrants, thereby legitimising their presence in white Protestant America.

摘要

本文关注的是“教育热”，它标志着早期韩国移民社区在夏威夷领地的私立学校教育举措（1898-1959 年）。本文借鉴两所韩国私立学校——韩国中央学校和韩国基督教学院的案例，探讨了美国白人传教士教育工作者和韩国移民教育工作者之间围绕学校运作和被认为适合的教学实践之间的紧张关系和冲突。美帝国空间中“东方”学生的教育。这两个案例表明，夏威夷领土上的韩国移民在为自己的国家、社区和个人利益而实施美国化的努力中坚持不懈并富有创新精神。而且，