Critical Autoethnography of General Autonomy Cooperation Office Managers: Focusing on the Experience of Local Education Support Offices in Regions Experiencing Local Extinction

I have studied the difficulties of cooperation and the strategies for resolution through critical self-ethnography. The first difficulty in cooperation is the contradiction of the administrative structure. This leads to wasteful conflicts such as a power struggle through protocol between county governors and superintendents of education, township heads, and school principals at local events. This is also due to the contradiction inherent in the decision-making and consultation structure of the city, county, and office of education, which have different authorities. The second difficulty is the difference in educational philosophy perspectives, which corresponds to the performance-based approach represented by the excessive focus of local governments on entrance exams in the metropolitan area, and the perspective of the Office of Education that focuses on regional settlement and general education. The third difficulty is the unique exclusivity of the region, and in a reality where the network centered on indigenous people does not take immigrants into consideration, the Office of Education must step forward and create a new educational activity venue in which immigrants can also participate. As a practical strategy to solve these difficulties, first, relationship building through hospitality and friendship building, second, awareness improvement through a step-by-step approach such as accumulation of regional-centered narratives and agenda setting and formation of public forums, and third, governance operation through activating empowered private participation were attempted in various ways.