A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGE TOWARD KEELUNG PORT : A CASE STUDY OF PUPILS

• Main Authors: Feng-yi Chen, 陳鳳儀
• Other Authors: 張長義
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21772168424207310867

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理學研究所 === 87 === With the growing focus on environmental image, numerous study fields have conducted research and discussions on this topic from different perspectives. Geography employs Behavioral Geography as the basis for its study into environmental image. Because of the Man-Environmental conventionality of Geographic study, it will be an interesting research to study people''s image of the environment. Furthermore, the study of children''s frank feelings about the environment in which they live would provide us with a deeper insight into the development of our country. The objective of this research was to explore pupil''s environmental images of Keelung Port, to study pupil''s cognitive map pertaining to these images, to understand factors that will ease the acquisition of new image elements among pupils, and to provide reconstruction suggestions that will enhance pupil''s vision toward Keelung Port. Because Geology is an integrated study field, this research combined ideas from both Geography and Psychology to arrive at its conclusion. (1) Analysis of pupil''s background: Sex ratio was moiety because of the normal distribution of class members. The proportion of students overstriding school districts was about one third and the proportion of pupil''s parents working in Keelung Port was about one tenth. Most pupils have lived in Keelung over one year. The results from chi-square testing showed that sexuality and images are correlated while other variables does not. (2) Investigations of pupil''s environmental image toward Keelung Port: a) Most boys have a pessimistic view of the environmental image while girls have an optimistic view. We can observe that most girls painting tend to reflect their aesthetic perception while most boys painting showed a dependency on realistic perception to describe their senses. b) Big ships and seagulls were the most demonating aspect of port images that appeared in pupils'' cognitive maps. In general, pupils were more impressed by seagulls than big ships. c) Regardless of which activities the pupil had participated in Keelung Port, dragon-boat racing was the most popular among all the pupils. Therefore, we can clearly see the importance of this activity. d) Elements of environmental image that pupils can acquire, in order of relative ease, were - activity related (folk activities), time frequency related (spontaneous), time frequency related (periodic), setting location (neighboring downtown), setting importance (special), and setting nature (non-man made). Key words: Keelung Port, Environmental Image, Pupils, Behavioral Geography, Congnitive Map, Mental Map.