Echoing Habermas’ problematics upon ‘everyday life being colonized by the system’, this study aims to reveal the possibilities of self-organizing education governance by a community of practice (CoP) for autonomous education in ‘everyday life’. For this purpose, the study adopted a qualitative case study approach and chose Sunchon district as an ideal case to understand the process of constructing governance for a self-organizing CoP to rehabilitate local educational capabilities. It was revealed that the successful construction of governance in Sunchon had originated not from excellent competencies of individual activists but from the life trajectories of those activists’ engagement in a CoP, whose nature was a new social movement to revive the intrinsic value of education within everyday life. Based upon their practical knowledge, the leading activists ‘designed’ an intermediary organization which has been constructing governance for the CoP, by the CoP, and of the CoP. Also, embedded within this designed structure, the self-organization of this CoP was ‘emergent’, revealing that the transformation of the novices’ way of engagement and identification happens depending upon the seniors’ way of engagement in the CoP. From these results, the necessity of revealing the educational movement within everyday life from the perspective of a CoP is urgently suggested for the purpose of realizing the possibilities of future education embedded within the agencies of the educational stakeholders- teachers, students, parents, and local residents.