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Analysis of the meaning of the village education community on the learning and growth of adolescents: Focusing on the case of Momgsil School in Uijeongbu

Objectives This study is to present and explore the impact and meaning of the village education community's activities, which are being carried out beyond schools to villages in the context of educational innovation, on the learning and growth of adolescents, and then attempts to provide implications for the direction of educational innovation. Methods By reviewing preceding researches, this study explores the meaning of the village education community in the context of educational innovation and conducts purposive sampling on Mongsil School, which was judged to be suitable for the purpose of the study, the adolescent self-governing learning place located in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do through study in advance. For about 2 years, participatory observation, ethnographic approach, semi-structured depth interview(39 people including adolescents, young adults and adult activists etc.) and surveys for basic research were conducted simultaneously and the data collected thereby were analyzed with various documents related to the subject of study. Results First, the village education community has become an emotional space where adolescents can rest and be cared for after school. Second, adolescents have formed relationships with the world around them by working with various members other than the school, and through this, they were newly aware of the world and community in which they live, and formed a sense of ownership of the village. Third, the adolescents have been discovering their talents anew and their motivation for learning has been growing, experiencing ‘real learning’ through various challenges and experimental activities in the village education community. And a positive transfer has been taking place in their school life. Conclusions Adolescents have been growing up as subjects of their own lives by experiencing various independent and challenging experiences at the village school, a village education community. This means that the village education community should cooperate and support the whole development of adolescents along with school education, as the saying goes, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’. Schools also need to play the role of lifelong education institutions in the local community through spatial restructuring. The results of this study imply a lot to the direction of education innovation after.