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근대 여성 고등교육은 식민지기에 개신교 선교사들에 의해 시작되었다. 1910년부터 1937년까지 약 28년간 개신교계 학교인 이화학당 대학과와 이화여전에서 유일하게 여성 고등교육이 이뤄져 왔다. 이화여전은 문과·음악과·가사과·보육과 등을 중심으로 미국식 교양교육과 전공교육을 실시했다. 이와 같은 여성 고등교육은 현실적으로 개신교계 학교에서 가르칠 교사를 양성하는 데 주안점을 두었다. 이화여전은 여성에게 한정된 직업으로인식된 유치원 교사, 학교는 물론 선교 활동을 위해 필요한 음악 교사, 여성의 가정내 역할을 근대식으로 가르치는 가사 교사, 서구적 교양인으로서의 영어 교사를키워냈다. 이화여전이 배출한 졸업생들은 전국의 유치원과 사립여자고등보통학교등에서 교사로 활약했다. 여성의 사회 진출이 극히 제한되었던 시절, 교사로 살아가던이화여전 출신 졸업생들은 스스로를 여성 지식인으로 자부했고 또한 사회도 그렇게 대우했다. 또한 여성고등교육의 실현과 졸업생의 교사로의 진출은 여성들이 사회진출의 발판으로서 고등교육을 선택하는 계기로 확고히 자리를 잡아갔다.
Modern-style Higher education for Korean females were initiated by Protestant missionaries during the Japanese Occupation period. From the year 1910 through 1937, Higher education for women was only conducted at the Ewha Hakdang Collage and the Ewha Women’s Special School -which were schools aligned with the Protestant church- for 28 years. Status of the latter was unique, earning the school a reputation duly recognized by every school girl who aspired to be enrolled at the school. Ewha Women’s Special School conducted American-styled Cultural education and Major education, through individual schools dedicated to respective majors such as Liberal arts, Music, Housework and Childcare, etc. Primary goal of this fashion of higher female education was to train teachers who could teach and serve in the future at Protestant schools. Ewha Women’s Special School was able to turn out countless teachers who would perform education in various areas, not only as kindergarten teachers (which had usually been females anyway) but also as Music teachers who could engage in missionary activities, Housework teachers who could teach students the role of modern-style females at home, and English teachers who could teach them the Western culture. Graduates of the Ewha Women’s Special School continued to teach at kindergartens and private women’s high schools all around the country. At the time females were only able to cultivate limited careers in the society, but Ewha Women’s Special School graduates who became teachers proudly considered themselves as female intellectuals, and the society too considered them as such. As time progressed, more females chose higher education, became teachers, and advanced their own careers in the society.
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Higher Education for females, training of teachers, Ewha Women’s Special School, Liberal arts school, Music school, Housework school, Childcare school
