Schooling in Micronesia During Japanese Mandate Rule
Shuster, Donald R (May 1979). "Schooling in Micronesia During Japanese Mandate Rule". Educational Perspectives. 18 (2): 20–26.
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Abstract: The volcanic islands and idyllic atolls of the far western Pacific were populated as long ago as 3000 BC by peoples coming out of island Southeast Asia. Thus, when Magellan planted the Spanish flag on Guam in 1521, Micronesian cultures were rich, vibrant and thriving despite their isolation. Chamorro resistance to Spanish control in the Mariana Islands, though heroic, was fruitless for in the three decades from 1668 to 1700 war and imported diseases reduced the island population from an estimated 50,000 to a mere 4000.' With complete pacification, school and farm activities were an integral part of Catholic mission work within two centuries of Magellan's arrival. During their brief 15-year administrative tenure (1899-1914), German missionaries expanded formal schooling in Micronesia by supplementing religious training with the "Three Rs" and domestic science for girls. By 1913, the German schools there enrolled 321 boys and 152 girls. Palau had five schools with 213 boys and 152 girls. In the Eastern Carolines and Marshall Islands, German authorities allowed the Protestant Boston Mission and Catholics to continue their church schools. With the beginning of the Great War in Europe, Japan seized the Micronesian islands late in 1914 without resistance from either Germany or the native inhabitants. Legal authority over the islands was conferred upon the Emperor of Japan by the Versailles Peace Conference Accords of 1920. As a Class "C" mandate,2 Micronesia could be administered under Japanese law as an integral part of her territory but subject to the requirements of the League of Nations Mandate Agreement. From 1922 to the eve of the Second World War, Japan launched economic and social programs which far exceeded efforts of the earlier German and Spanish colonial administrations. The purpose of this article is to present a brief historical sketch of the development of schooling in Micronesia during Japanese mandate rule.
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