Vol. 21-1（2008/3）
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Teachers’ Citizen Participation in Leseng Sanatorium Event and Its Influence on Their Education Work
Kun-Fa Hsu
This research comes from the reflection of the researcher’s participation in Leseng event. It aims to discuss the beliefs and practice of teachers’ citizen participation and also the influence on their education work. In this article, purposive samples are adopted. Three teachers, who are from Pingtung County Elementary School and participated in the Leseng preservation movement, are taken as subjects. Data and information are collected by the method of in-depth semi-structural interview. Results are revealed as follows: (1) Teachers’ citizen participation is an interwoven development course instead of an improvisational participation. (2)Teachers’ citizen participation can help teachers for their self-examination and self-criticism; therefore they can avoid duplicating hegemony and get rid of prejudice, discrimination and rigid impression. (3)In addition to caring about disadvantaged groups and realizing social obligations, teachers can get inspiration for their teaching beliefs and curriculum design, and to make improvements in their specialty. (4)Interviewees consider that the teaching environment in Taiwan is conservative and not encouraging teachers to participate in public affairs. A majority of teachers have no interests in public affairs and do not care about them.
Keyword：Leseng Sanatorium Affairs, citizen participation, multicultural education
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Reexamining the Legitimacy of Punishment Exerted in Education
Chen-Wen Li
This study aims to reexamine the legitimacy of punishment exerted in education. Although the justifications of punishment theories, retributive theory, deterrent theory, and reformative theory, were widely acknowledged, Foucault and Critical pedagogists challenged the rule and authority in the modern Capitalist society. Moreover, corporal punishment is deemed as a serious damage to the human rights of students. Teachers need to reconsider the role and exertion of punishment.
Keyword：punishment, retributive theory, deterrent theory, reformative theory, human right, critical pedagogy, Foucault
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Yahui Fang
Rural areas have long not been valued in regional development; however, community development as an effort of grassroots has worked wonderfully to revitalize old villages to blossom again. Yilan is one of these cases. The paper is to study a series of community development training programs for local residents, which are initiated and implemented by Yilan Community University and some locally-rooted community development organizations (NGO), and to explore the teaching methods applied to cultivate learners the ideals of community development and citizenship as well as know-how techniques. The study found that achieving community renaissance is a continuous process of citizenship education, and the innovative learning connection among individual, organization, and community, and other communities is the key to succeed in the process.
Keyword：community learning, intergenerational learning, community empowerment, capacity building, aging in place
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Chi-Cheng Chang & Chiu-Mang Wang
This study aims to explore factors influencing the uses of teachers’ integrating information technology into their teaching in Taipei municipal vocational high schools. Research results reveal that, besides three factors (school attribute, attribute of teacher preparation program, teaching hours) in personal background and one factor (technical support) in school environment, nine factors in personal background, four factors in teacher knowledge and ability, seven factors in teacher attitude, sixteen factors in school environment, and six factors in exterior environment (totally forty-two factors) have significant effects on how teachers integrate IT into their teaching. The better teachers’ personal background, knowledge and ability, attitude, school environment and exterior environment are, the more information technology is integrated into teaching.
Keyword：IT integrating into teaching, factor, knowledge and ability, attitude
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Draw Me a Star:Weaving a Dense and Intimate Web of Literature
Min-Ling Tsai & Fang-Wei Tai
Inspired by a picture book, the lollipop class of kindergarten children and their teacher (the second author) collaboratively made a special gift for the first author on Teacher’s day. As moved by the affective bonds between the two teachers and the children on account of a love for reading, the two authors looked back and described how this dense and intimate web of literature had been woven together with young children. First of all, the way the class read, explored and responded to picture books were introduced through a preliminary analysis of the second author’s web-log records of the discussion, the records of children’s favorite books and the first author’s observation notes. Secondly, the second author described how this kind of reading life was created in this classroom. Thirdly, the first author discussed the necessity of sharing lollipop class’ reading life, the substantial meaning such a reading life had on the construction of language learning indices, the limitations of such a reading life, and the dynamics resulting from the two teacher’s reflection and self-reflection on and via web-log writing in the teaching practices. Lastly, the possible meanings of the images, sounds and senses of picture books existing comfortably in these young children’s classroom lives were again pondered upon. Some examples of these children’s responses to picture books revealed how deep young children were able to appreciate literary works and how unforgettable a memory reading could bring along when it was interwoven with people’s feelings and their lives.
Keyword：young children’s literature, literary response, the discussion on picture books
