협동조합 교육에 관한 국내 연구동향 분석:1983년∼2018년 연구를 중심으로

With heightened social interests and participation in cooperatives since the 2012 Framework Act on Cooperatives, its importance as a learning field of citizens has greatly increased. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the research trends on education of cooperatives in Korea from 1983 to 2018, to draw out key features and implications. For this purpose, 165 journal articles and theses were analyzed in terms of the number of articles per year, researchers, research subjects, research themes, and research methods. The research on education of cooperatives rapidly increased from 2013, and the peak period was 2014–2016. The largest proportion of researchers’ majors was economics & business administration, followed by education, social work, then sociology. Consumer cooperatives and cooperatives members were the most studied subjects. The largest research topic was the need for education programs for development of cooperatives, while concepts & theories of cooperative education was the least studied. Finally, this paper calls for the elaboration of research on education of cooperatives, formation of researcher groups, and in-depth studies of the social learning effect of cooperatives.