There were five purposes in this study as follows: 1.to develop the Taiwan Creative Education Indicators.(TCEI). 2.to develop the Taiwan Creative Education Indicators Index.(TCEII). 3.to develop the Taiwan Creative Education Implementation Questionnaire. (TCEIQ). 4.to evaluate the practice of creative education in elementary and secondary schools in Taiwan. 5.to bring up some suggestions for elementary and secondary schools in Taiwan.
According to Taiwan¡¦s ¡§White paper on Creative Education¡¨(2002), creative educational medium range development program, and documents which concerned about implementing of creative education, this study developed the Taiwan creative education indicators through expert interview, in-field interview, and communicating with the propellants of creative education policy .In order to evaluate the practice of creative education, this study used the survey research method.(surveyed 356 schools and 615 members that actually implemented the
Taiwan creative education policy.)
This study also constructed AIPO Model to evaluate the practice of creative education, ¡§A¡¨ means the awareness of the teachers and members who actually implemented the creative education policy that established by Bureau of Education. ¡§I¡¨ means the educational input, ¡§P¡¨ means the educational process, ¡¨O¡¨ means the educational output. The educational input (I) includes governmental bounty, human resources, environmental resources. The educational process (P) includes the establishment of the creative communities, the use of creative ideas in academic subjects, the evaluation of creative projects, the evaluation of the use of governmental bounty. The educational output (O) includes creative activities, creative competitions and awards , the development of creative subject matters, students¡¦ creative performances. On the other hand, based on the whole awareness of the creative education, and five action programs as follows: ¡§Professional development for creative teachers¡¨, ¡§Nurturing trips for creative learners¡¨, ¡§Comprehensive management for creative schools¡¨ , ¡§Online learning via a creative intelligence bank¡¨, ¡§Ongoing consolidation of creativity cultivation¡¨ , this study brought up 95 creative education reference indicators. It also developed two evaluation tools- ¡§Taiwan Creative Education Indicators Index.(TCEII)¡¨, and ¡§Taiwan
Creative Education Implementation Questionnaire.(TCEIQ)¡¨.
The study found the practicing of creative education has great efforts in educational input, educational process and educational output. The average awareness scores of the propellants is 3.76 (1 means helpless, 5 means very helpful). In conclusion, boosting creative education is helpful, and we also know that awareness of teachers, practicing of creative education could enhance creativity of children, problem solving and basic academic ability. For teachers, it can enhance the ability of creativity and transferring courses and professional education knowledge. For school, it can improve participation of community, administrators, teachers and student.
In the end, researcher brought up some suggestions for the implementation of creative education, the research targets, the research tools, and the research methods in the
further study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0724107-064938 |
| Date | 24 July 2007 |
| Creators | Kuo, Hsu-chan |
| Contributors | Yu-I Wu, Ying-yao Cheng, I-heng Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0724107-064938 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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