Chinese Language Education Promotion From Taiwan’s Buddist Group —A Case Study on Tzu-Chi Academies in California, U.S.A. / 台灣佛教團體之海外華語文教育推廣現況及影響因素研究—以美國加州慈濟人文學校為例

碩士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 華語文教學研究所 / 100 / Tzu Chi Foundation, founded in 1966 in Hualien, Taiwan, is a distinguished Taiwanese religious group. In 1995, the first Tzu Chi Academy in the U.S.A was established. Until December, 2009, there have been 42 Tzu Chi Academies worldwide, seven of which are located in California; Tzu Chi Academy, Los Angeles, Tzu Chi Academy, San Dimas, Tzu Chi Academy, Irvine, Tzu Chi Academy, San Francisco, Tzu Chi Academy, Cupertino, Tzu Chi Academy, San Jose, and Tzu Chi Academy, San Mateo, and the number is still increasing.

In the dissertation, targeting on the seven Tzu Chi Academies, the multi-faceted discussion and analyses are based on the information gathering from field investigation, firsthand literature review as well as audio and video materials, and covering the issues such as origins of school establishment, the organization, the administration, teaching contents, teacher training and the strategies to blend religious activities into Mandarin education. In addition, the academies’ difficulties like deficient funds and unstable resources of personnel, supposedly applicable suggestions and future possibilities including institutionalized operation, popularized and digitized Mandarin courses, and standardized humanity curricula are also addressed in the dissertation, in the hope of being beneficial to a record in this sphere and the research in overseas Mandarin education.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NTNU5612038
Date January 2012
CreatorsHsiao-Tzu, Lee, 李孝慈
ContributorsShin-Chang, Hsin, 信世昌
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format144

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