| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 成人教育研究所 === 90 === The main purpose of this study were (1) to explore the related theories of the domestic and foreign senior citizens’ education and the background of development and experience (2) to analyze the recent situation of the practice of senior citizens’ education and trends for development (3) to investigate the practical opinions of the relevant workers whose work is to conduct the senior citizens’ education and use them as a reference for the future workable project (4) to provide concrete suggestions which are based on the results of the study and use them as a reference for educational administration and schools.
The measuring instrument consisted of two parts: “literature review” and “questionnaires.” To achieve the purpose, a questionnaire was developed to survey on conductors, participants and experts, 551 effective samples that were actually acquired. The data of questionnaires had been processed for statistical analysis under the “SPSS” statistics packaging software. The obtained data was analyzed by frequency distribution of the condition of conduction and the workable opinions of the three samples. This study has come up with the following conclusions and suggestions after we compare the differences and similarities between them.
Part I. Conclusions
I. The situation of conduction
1. There were few organizations that provide daytime senior citizens’ education and the supply won’t meet the need in the future.
2. There should be an elastic standard of the way of recruiting students and fees.
3. We had to unify the sources of the budget, places and facilities.
4. The course should be combined with the learning need of the senior citizens.
5. The selection of the teachers should focus on the specific skills.
6. The problems that we confront in conducting senior citizens’ education are unwillingness to attend and shortage of budget.
7. We had to manage to improve the courses, teaching materials and teachers’ qualifications of the senior citizens’ education.
8. The reason that daytime senior citizens’ education is never conducted is exactly the point, which we should pay attention to.
II. The opinions of those who conduct daytime senior citizens’ education
1. Ideas
(1)The purpose of the attendants point out the need of learning.
(2)The “need,” “budget,” “teachers,” “human resources” and “social adaptation” are the reasons for prior consideration.
(3)Schools’ teaching sources should open up to the senior learners in the communities.
2.Administrative promotion
(1) Government should provide assistance in “budget,” “laws revision,” “encouraging the local groups to take part in,” and “training on intelligence and ability.”
(2) Junior high schools and primary schools are the practical units which conduct the senior citizens’ education.
(3) We should offer services as “tutor’s guidance and counseling,” “health treatment counseling” and “using facilities of the library.”
(4) We had to combine the local source and the multi-media when we propagandize the activities.
3. The selection of the teachers: Teachers should have specialties and
Enthusiasm
4. Places and faculties: Junior high schools and primary schools are the must suitable places
5. The design of the courses
(1)The design of the courses should focus on the learning need of the senior citizens and grownups.
(2) The implementation of courses can be led to active development.
6. The source of the budget: government, local groups and senior citizens should pay their parts.
7. Problems and solutions
(1)The schools which conduct daytime senior citizens’ education must overcome the problems of “laws,” “specialties,” “human resources” and “wills.”
(2)In order to solve the problems, county and city governments should work on the “budget,” ”awards,” and “coordination of specialties.”
(3)Junior high schools and primary schools should do survey on “evaluation of need,” elaborate courses and the “propaganda of activities” in advance.
(4)County and city government had to meet the need of the people and stimulate the motivation of participation.
Part II. Suggestions
I. The suggestions for the government and the educational adminstrative authorities
1. County and city governments needed to evaluate the learning needs of the senior citizens, reach an agreement and form a policy.
2. The govenrment had to use every kind of ways to propagandize the idea of the equal opportunity for the senior citizens and common people to make use of the teaching resources of the schools.
3. The government should convey the revision of laws and the implementation of the policy to carry out the popularization of the senior citizens’ education.
4. The government ought to employ the method of “ the subsidy fo the project” and assist to unify the resources of various budgets.
5. The government had to coordinate the nearby educational organizations for the grownups and human resources, assist the junior high schools and primary schools to develop the courses which combine the constructions of the courses and the characteristics of the communities. Besides, we should design the learning courses and ways of implementation to meet the learners’ needs.
6. The government should adopt elastic viewpoints to evaluate the situations and the possibilitites of practice for the local junior high and primary schools which conduct senior citizens’ education.
7. The government must do its best to guide and evaluate the effects of implementation.
8. The government had to adopt measures such as effective awards and bonus to stimulate the will of conducting senior citizens’ education.
II Suggestions to the schools
1. The schools could start from the small scale and then expand to the whole
2. The schools could design other ways such as charter schools and then evaluate the effects.
III .Suggestions for the further studies
1. To move one more step to the further intervies
2. To use this study as a basis and have a further research
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