Abstract
One of the most crucial, influential periods in modern Korean history—and paradoxically one of the least-researched—is the five-year period between the defeat of Japan in August of 1945 and the beginning of the Korean War in June of 1950. However, this five year span witnessed epochal events that changed the face of the Korean peninsula, most notably in the areas of education and language. In the linguistic sphere, the geopolitical forces at work on the Korean peninsula were writ large in the public sphere, manifested in the language policies relating to the publishing industry, government functions, the education system, and the ideologies that undergirded these policies. By focusing on language policy and ideology and its manifestations in the field of education, I intend to demonstrate the role of language in mediating the dissemination of legitimized knowledge through education, and language's own positioning within a
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Education History in Manchuria and Korea—An International Approach |
| Editors | kanshū Matsubara Takatoshi , Andrew Hall, Jin Tingshi |
| Place of Publication | Fukuoka, Japan |
| Publisher | Hana Shoin |
| Pages | 299-328 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9784865610710, 4865610715 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |