| Title |
A Study on the Utilization of Closed Schools in Rural Area as Welfare Facilities for the Elderly and Community Center |
| Authors |
Park Kyoung-Ok ; Cho Hyun-Ju ; Lee Sang-Un |
| Keywords |
closed school ; elderly welfare spaces ; community centers of residents ; life pattern ; facilities of rural residents |
| Abstract |
Closed schools in rural areas are hardly used for the residents and this study has its purpose to suggest the possibility to use these facilities for elderly welfare spaces or community centers of residents. For this purpose this article studied life pattern and use of facilities of rural residents. Interviews on the use of leisure time, additional jobs other than agriculture and the use of facilities were conducted on 91 residents living in the educational area of 2 preliminary schools which were just closed. The 2 schools-Seongdae branch school of Baekgok preliminary school and Ohsang branch school of Gujeong preliminary school- are located in Jincheon-gun, Chuncheongbuk-do, and the residents were interviewed precisely from 15th Feb. to 20th Feb.??Rural residents have relatively much spare time more than 6 hours a day, but their leisure activities are very restrictive in diversity. Economic burden, lack of time in their agricultural period and inconvenient traffic ask closed schools near and familiar to the residents to be converted to the compound community center with diverse functions and leisure programs. It would improve the life quality of agricultural residents and lessen their economic burden. |