The Research of Shanghai Elderly University / 上海市老年大學之研究

碩士 / 國立中正大學 / 高齡者教育所 / 95 / The purpose of the present study is to investigate the Shanghai Elderly University. The documentary analysis method was mainly adopted and interview on the telephone secondly. The documents which had been collected from 1985 to December of 2006 included the relative documents, books, reports, editorials, and websites of Shanghai Elderly University. By reading and arranging them, the researcher tried to discuss the origin, the development, the administrative organization, funds, the sources of the instructors, the admission, the members, the teaching issues, and the curriculums of Shanghai Elderly University. After the discussion of the above, the researcher generalized the features from it and provided some recommendations for the elders’ education in Taiwan.
The research about Shanghai Elderly University can be generalized into five features as below:
1. about the administrative organization: the good framework of administrative organization, the institution-base management, and using the elders'' human resources.
2. about the budget structure: the low tuition supported by the government.
3. about the teachers: from broadness and diversity.
4. about the curricula: diverse courses and discretionary enrolment and leaving.
5. other dimensions: innovative administering, gathering the elders for congregate dialing and watching, and learning points around the city.
Besides, the researcher analyzed the implement of Shanghai Elderly University, then pointed out the dilemma and blind spots of it, and finally provided the elders’ educational institutes with five recommendations as following:
1. about the administration: different organizations to supervise different municipal elderly universities
2.about the budget: the budget support was insufficient, and the low tuition made old members not leave and new ones not be able to enter.
3. about the admissibility: strict membership resulted in trouble enrolling new members.
4. other dimensions: citizens still lacked the concept of lifelong learning, technological accessory learning should consider the poverty gap between urban and suburb areas, learning space of elderly universities is insufficient, and so on.
At last, the research of Shanghai Elderly University provides eight recommendations as below:
1.The government can offer different types of elderly learning courses.
2.The government should pay much attention to elderly learning institutions and fixed budget support.
3.The government should set up an organization to supervise elderly educational institutions.
4.Offering diverse courses can attract the elders to take part in learning activities.
5.Use elderly volunteers and elderly human resources well.
6.Elderly educational institutions should offer thorough information service.
7.Don''t limit teaching to traditional instruction and offer diverse learning models.
8.Put emphasis on communication between domestic and foreign elderly educational institutions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/095CCU05782003
Date January 2007
CreatorsTSE-FENG WANG, 汪澤鳳
Contributorsnone, 黃錦山
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format130

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