Change and Dilemma of School Feature Development of Three Junior High Schools in the Remote and Rural Areas of Taiwan

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Shan-Hua; Ho, Hsuan-Fu; Yang, Cheng-Cheng
Titel	Change and Dilemma of School Feature Development of Three Junior High Schools in the Remote and Rural Areas of Taiwan
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 5 (2012) 3, S.49-55 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Junior High Schools; Qualitative Research; Interviews; Principals; Administrator Attitudes; Financial Support; Socioeconomic Background; Academic Ability; Learning Motivation; Competition; Parent Child Relationship; Student Participation; Academic Achievement; Community Support; Career Education; Parent Aspiration; Birth Rate; Athletics; School Community Relationship; Technical Education; Cultural Capital; Futures (of Society); Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Sekundarstufe I; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Principal; Schulleiter; Finanzielle Förderung; Sozioökonomische Lage; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Wettkampf; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Schulleistung; Arbeitslehre; Elternwille; Leichtathletik; Technikunterricht; Future; Society; Zukunft
Abstract	This research is based on qualitative approach and applies in-depth interview with three principals and administrators in three junior high schools located in the remote and rural areas of Taiwan. The aim of this paper was to explore the school feature development process in these three schools. The findings of this study were as follows: most of students' parents in these three remote and rural schools are labors and have relatively lower social and economic status in the Taiwanese society. School education becomes an important way for these students to develop their academic, cultural, and technical competences. Second, most of the students' learning motivation and academic performance were not well, but good at athletics or vocational skill. Besides, most of the features created by the schools would not last due to the un-stabilization and away of teachers, short of financial support, and lack of favor from community. Fourth, an important reason of developing school features of these three schools is out of the competition between the urban schools. The decline of the birth rate in the whole society of Taiwan also facilitates the motivation. Fifth, parents of these three schools do not support students' participation in local cultural or local career related curriculum. Parents would have a high expectation on school education's effects on their children's future competitiveness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01