碩士 / 國立臺東大學 / 兒童文學研究所 / 100 / With the rise of Taiwan local and environmental awareness in recent years, people gradually remembered, "Taiwan is an island in the ocean". First, in 2001, the Government published a "White Paper on Ocean", and then the Ministry of Education in 2007 developed a "White Paper on Marine Education", sworn to plant down roots of marine education to primary and secondary schools, and the most inspiration books for children is a picture book. As a result, I was curious in the picture books that were published in Taiwan, and the works that could help our children to recognize the term "ocean"?
The purpose of writing this paper, first, to categorize and generalize the "Ocean" issue in children's picture book, in order to clarify the work of the theme and type; second, by the texts and illustrations in these children's picture books, could help us to understand the presentation of each topic and its significance; and third, to find undeveloped space in the "making" of ocean, so that in the future creators can have basis for more breakthroughs.
About the classification of genre, the author uses ocean literature as a basis, and roughly divided picture books about the ocean into three types, firstly, a life of fishing, such as capture the marlin and burning the king boat; secondly, ecological issues, such as marine pollution and the conservation of whales and dolphins; thirdly, maritime history, such as Aboriginal marine legend, and the history of Dutch and the Spanish colonial occupied the north and south side of Taiwan.
According to the author’s research, when it came to the presentation of images, picture book artists usually make realistic depictions, gain inspiration from symbols, or use ideas out of fantasies. Stories about fishermen villages or ecological issues often have the purpose to illustrate the world as faithfully as it is, thus artists were more likely to take the realistic approach for scientific credibility when drawing. When they have to promote rather abstract ideas of living simple lives and being eco-friendly, symbols can be efficient communicators. On the other hand, in the field of oceanic historic imagery, artists were more likely to show the pictures in an indicative way that adds a historic touch to the research result.
As for, the "Making" of the ocean in Taiwan children's picture books, shows the presented appearance can be summarized according to the author's analysis. First, by the exploration of the history, trace back of the relation between historical development and the ocean. Second, with religions, family and maritime climate change shows the simple living in fishing village and awe towards the ocean. Third, with the rise of environmental consciousness and awareness, people care the problem of pollution seas around Taiwan, and the sustainable development of the ecosystem.
Through these ocean-related picture books, we can understand in recent years, Taiwan's children's picture book about the matters of the ocean, not only the number increased, but also a trend of diversification in the theme. In addition, from these picture books, we could also observed some phenomena, such as a lot of text describe the ocean as gentle, and less often could we see the ravages of the storm, thus showing that the oceans have been "tamed". The most commonly seen in these texts are the waters surrounding Taiwan, but rarely the ocean, virtually narrowing "smaller" Taiwan's marine. Finally, in referring to the Taiwan maritime history, alien colonists and the indigenous people of Taiwan seem to often get along harmoniously, "covering "the harsh reality in the colonial period.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NTTU0638034 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Chou, Yahui, 周雅慧 |
| Contributors | Lin, Wenpao, 林文寶 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 168 |
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