The purpose of this study was to explore the future direction of research for the educational community by a critically review of recent research for 15 years related to the educational community through semantic network analysis. Main results were as follows. First, it claimed a total of 44 high frequency in studies related to the educational community for 15 years, the main word was mentioned ‘teacher', ‘community', ‘participation', ‘relationship between members' ‘caring ', ‘trust ', ‘collaboration ', ‘the teacher association’, etc. Second, the frequency of the word 'autonomy' is low but could show a significantly higher impact to identify the school as a community approach. Third, a educational community, a teacher, and a school community focused on consisting of key words were derived in cluster network analysis of educational community. It shows that not deviate from concepts or features, or components of the educational community have said in previous studies abroad. Also, it emphasized the role of the teacher becomes more prominent than the other members, or sometimes it limited to one theory, the research was done mainly to see education practice in Korea. Fourth, this study separated and analysed articles published in the former period(2001-2007) and the post period(2008-2015). Through the analysis, understanding the community as a way of overcoming conflict studies education consisted mainly of interest in voluntary participation of teachers in the former period but as well teacher as members of the community, and research focused on the relationship between the members through a sense of community, commitment and collaboration based on the shared vision and goals are identified as the main accomplished in the post period. According to the results of this study, previous studies of the educational community can have access to have occurred mainly applied to Korea around the theory of foreign studies, for innovation to education through a community approach It suggests that require a substantial theoretical and practical research, its practical strategy of South Korean education community, and focus on competencies development according to the Korean community education appropriate to the situation and context in South Korea.