A Study on Curriculum & Teaching of Life and Death Education for 2nd Grade Elementary Students

• Main Author: 紀孟春
• Other Authors: 紀潔芳
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61950003230687903531

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 90 === The purposes of this study were to find out the difference on death attitude, life and death education content and acceptance, population variants for 2nd grade elementary school students;to design suitable life and death education teaching activities, then implement and discuss the effect of the teaching activities. Based on this study, to propose concrete suggestion on elementary school lower grades students’ life and death education courses, teaching activities and teaching resources application, which could be the reference for implement of life and death education courses at elementary school. Through the design of courses, choice of program, variety of teaching,students were under expected condition to achieve predictable goal. The life and death education consists of life education and death education. The study expects students through learning could have positive changes toward death and accept more life and death education content and recognition. Students at the 2nd grade are at the concrete-operational stage, they already have the concept of death. The researcher uses “ Children’s Death Attitude Scale” as the data collection tool to predictive-test, pretest and posttest to quantity analysis, uses “Program Feedback Sheet” as the quality analysis. Study method applies “the pretest-posttest nonequivalent-groups design”. Samples were certain of two classes students at 2nd grade of Taichung Chung-Hsiao Elementary School, dividing into experimental and control groups. The data is processed by statistics methods such as T-test, the one-factor analysis of variance etc. After analysis, the study finds out the following results: 1.Experimental group has more concerned on death than control group. 2.Experimental group has more acceptance to death than control group. 3.Experimental group has more demand on life and death education program than control group. 4.Experimental group has more acceptance to life and death education program than control group. Based on the above results, the researcher proposes the following suggestions: 1.Implementation of life and death education in school. (1)The school should list life and death education as a formal curriculum: The 2nd grade students agree the education should be taken and like to discuss the subjects and carefully finish the Life-Death Learning Sheet. (2)The life and death education should involve in school other activities: The activities could be held in some special festival or practice in contest. (3)The life and death education should combine with community resources: Every class has set up parents-meeting. The school could invite parents to provide related support to different learning subject. (4)The collection of life and death education resources should be under planning: We could take reference such as “Newsletter of Life and Death Studies” issued by Life and Death graduate school of Nan-Hua University, “Newsletter of Hospice Care ” issued by Hospice Foundation of Taiwan, “Newsletter of Monk Nursing” published by Monk Nursing Foundation etc. (5) The life and death education should be practiced in teaching in elementary school: The program should be lively, caring and variant. (6) The life and death education should company with Nine-Year Joint Curriculum Program: The main characteristics of the program is the students are the center, focus on school main program and combine knowledge and life closely. 2.Implementation of life and death education in society. (1)Well utilize mass media to report to the public. (2)Set up life and death education research center. (3)Build many life and death education promotion center.