교육 귀촌의 등장과 그 의미

Abstract

Modern Korean society is in a crisis of regional extinction due to a decrease in the rural population. Accordingly, local governments are actively supporting policies to increase the local population, and academic circles are continuously studying the policies of urban-to-rural migrant. In this background, this study explains a steady increase in urban-to-rural migrants to Gosan-myeon, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, and analyzes its meaning in an anthropological way. This paper is a case study of urban-to-rural migrants who moved to educate children among the cases of urban-to-rural migrants. After moving to area of Samwoo Elementary School, establishing a Gosanhyang Education Community and contributing to converting Gosan High School into a public alternative high school, they improved the educative environment of that village. This study shows that the local educational environment has changed due to the activities of Gosan's educative rural migrants, attracting urban-to-rural migrants with various purposes such as cultural and ecological rural migrants, and the Gosan area has been into a spotlight for urban-to-rural migrant area.