Abstract
Since 1995, the Ministry of Education has been campaigning for the establishment of a teaching resources center of local culture in every county and city across Taiwan, and the center in Penghu, founded by Dongwei Elementary School under a Dec. 1998 command by Penghu county government, started to run on the first day of August in 1999. However, due to the failure of the local authority of educational administration to pose a reasonable and durable mechanism of management, in recent years the operation of the center has almost come to a complete stop.
From an eco-philosophical point of view, the center focuses on the realization of the relationships built up amongst people, their local environment, and the nature. Located in a community rich in humanity and culture as well as natural resources, Penghu Teaching Resources Center of Local Culture should bring the school and the community tightly together, leading the teaching of local culture right into the community, the land where everything the center itself is about comes from.
On the other hand, as museology evolves into its new form, ecomuseological theories and their successful applications have gradually taken the place of traditional, stereotypical operations of exhibitions. In this study, considering the nature of local culture teaching, the researcher has explored every possibility of bringing Penghu Teaching Resources Center of Local Culture back to prosperity again by introducing the element of ecomuseology.
Digging deep into the literature concerning local culture teaching as well as ecomuseology and analyzing pools of data gathered from depth interviews, the researcher has come to the following conclusions:
1. The center should be ecologically combined with its community resources so that local culture teaching can always stay alive and up to date.
2. Following the 21st century museological trend, the center should offer its full services to cover areas of not only displaying but also education and recreation, turning static exhibitions into live experiences.
3. From an ecomuseological point of view, the center can be constructed as a whole exhibition network with a variety of routes extended out from the community.
4. Under the threats of other exhibition places that serve similar purposes, the center should secure its uniqueness by focusing on its specialty in education, turning competition into cooperation and creating a win-win situation.
5. The localism center should have full financial and human resources support from the authorities with its rank and power properly promoted.
6. Participation of local residents should be encouraged with volunteers recruited from the community to work as tour guides and commentators. This way, the center gets to live on with tours going deep from superficial sightseeing into the marrow of the local culture.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0730107-102359 |
| Date | 30 July 2007 |
| Creators | Chen, Bang-horng |
| Contributors | Po-Wen Chen, chin-ting Cheng, Huo-lung Yen, Jih-hwa Wu |
| 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-0730107-102359 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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