失落的道德世界－－日本殖民統治時期臺灣公學校修身教育之研究

本文旨在重建和分析日本殖民統治時期臺灣公學校修身教育的內容，並根據當時（歷史現場）以及筆者所從事的問卷調查資料，論述公學校道德教育的影響。在分析修身教育的內容上，本文以第二期公學校修身書以及時人論著為基本材料。由於臺灣公學校教育，無論在科目安排或教科書的編纂上，大抵模仿日本本土，因此在背景方面，筆者先討論日本小學修身教育與修身書，其次討論臺灣公學校修身科與修身書。第三節綜述公學校修身書的體裁和教授方式。第四節分析第二期修身書之內容，先討論修身教育的「四大綱領」，其次分述其他德目以及公德教育的內容，最後討論公學校修身書「以日本人為道德楷模」的特色。第五節探討公學校道德教育的成效與原因，根據以公小學校畢業生為對象的一百零一份問卷調查，公學校修身教育就教學設定的目標而言，可說達到相當程度的效果，其中主要的原因可以說與公學校教育各科環環相扣的教學設計有密切的關係。在結語部份，筆者透過日本本土修身教育與臺灣（略及朝鮮）間的異同，探討臺灣公學校修身教育的「殖民地性」，然而，如何剖析道德教育的「普遍義」與「特殊義」之間的糾葛，誠屬不易。

This article aims to reconstruct and analyze the content of ethics (shushin in Japanese) education in Taiwan's elementary schools during the period of Japanses rule (1896-1945). It also attempts, on the basis of surveys done by a school teacher of that time and by the author herself, to assess the effects of the ethics education in question. By analyzing the content of ethics education, this work draws mainly from second-phase ethics textbooks and relevant contemporary writings. Structurally, the first section of this article covers ethics education and ethics textbooks in modern Japan, because in many ways ethics education in Taiwan imitates its counterpart in Japan. The second section is a discussion of ethics education and ethics textbooks in colonial Taiwan in general. The work then goes on to treat the style of ethics textbooks and approaches in ethics education in Taiwan's elementary schools. The fourth section analyzes the distinctive features of the second-phase ethics textbooks used on this land. Finally, this article assesses the impact of ethics education. The author finds that ethics education in Taiwan was considerably successful in framing the mindset of young Taiwanese. One major reason in apparently that ethics education was closely linked to other courses, such as 'national language' (i.e. Japanese) and 'history,' making it a crucial component of the overall school education. In conclusion, the author makes a preliminary comparison among ethics education in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea- the two being Japan's colonies-hoping to highlight the central features and significance of ethics education in colonial Taiwan.