일본의 COC+정책에서 지역지향교육이 지역애착과 지역정착에 미치는 효과

Effects of the Community-oriented Education on Local Attachment & Local Settlement in Japan: A Case Study of Hirosaki COC+ Project

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find the educational effects of ‘the community-oriented education’ using the data of follow-up surveys of local university students. Japan’s MEXT had promoted the community-oriented education through twice COC and COC+ projects by mobilizing all local resources. It was consistent with the direction of educational reform at local universities. Korean society can obtained some important implications from this research results for the local youth settlement policy. Research design, data, and methodology: The existing studies on local settlement were used to cross-section data, so dynamic changes could not be confirmed. This study can confirm the attitude changes in the local attachment and the local-employment settlement between those who received and did not receive the community-oriented education by using data from two times: May of freshmen, November of third grade. This study used DD analysis. Results: According to this study, the educational effect only appeared to be limited to the students coming from other regions rather than those within the region. Rather, we find out that local experiences such as volunteer activities and club activities increase the attachment to the local community. According to the estimation results on local-employment of local youth, local industrial structure and job opportunities variables were more significant. The local employment opportunities were a direct factor in local employment decisions of local university students. Implications: The community-oriented education is not only a classroom-based local studies, but also a new approach to opportunities to contact the local community, such as volunteer activities in the region. The conclusions that regional experiences such as solving local problems, internship activities at local companies and local volunteer working increase local attachment are also meaningful in Korea’s regional policy. At the same time, it can be said that community-oriented education has a greater effective meaning in the elementary and secondary school curriculum than in universities.