dc.description.abstract | The Effectiveness of Hakka Folk Teaching
in Two Community Colleges in Northern Taiwan
Abstract
This research is to study the promotion of Hakka folk teaching in community colleges for the sake that strong impact of mainstream culture, and the modern civilization, and being “museumizaton” gradually. In order to save the Hakka folk culture, extend its vitality, inherit and promote in the multicultural Taiwan society, carry out the Hakka folk custom, it is essential to promote Hakka folk teaching in community colleges. This research investigates the promotion status of Hakka folk teaching, curriculum design, curriculum arrangement, teaching methods, teaching evaluation, teacher training and future prospects, and to explore on the related personnel of Hakka folk teaching. Participatory observations, literature analytic methods, the depth interviews, as well as the questionnaire survey procedures are adopted to study Hakka folk teaching in two community colleges in northern Taiwan.
The research shows that the effectiveness of Hakka folk teaching, including: 1. Students initiatively participate in the related activities. 2. Students actively learn Hakka culture-related courses. 3. Students have good study methods to raise independent thinking abilities. 4. Students practically face folk studies and applications. 5. It is majored mostly in the studies of application and space. 6. Students satisfied with the comprehensive learning outcomes.
On the other hand, through in-depth interviews and participation observation, the study shows: 1. Traditional folk has been simplified. (1) Engagement practices have been simplified. (2) Marriage customs have been simplified. (3) Funeral customs have been simplified. (4) Lucky day practices are broken. (5) The end of the morning practices are broken. (6) Traditional customs and beliefs are lost day after day. 2. The materials of folk teaching are not beyond the administration, and weakening the identity of ethnic. 3. Hakka folk is combined with local characteristics.4. The folk custom holds characteristic of Hakka culture in the current multicultural tides. 5. Folk teachers don’t hand down from the teacher or master and apprentice system any more. 6. Nowadays, the folk learners hold low will to learn. 7. Administrative department’’s policy may influence the changes of the customs. 8. The inheritance and promotion of folk vitality depends on teaching.
Keywords: community college, Hakka culture, Hakka folk teaching.
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