Study on Geographic Space Perception for Junior-high Students

• Main Authors: Ching-I Wu, 吳靜宜
• Other Authors: Wen-shang Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87974414700768461821

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 地理學系 === 91 === Master's Thesis Departnent of Geography National Kaohsiung Normal University Advisor：Wen-shang Chen Author：Ching-I Wu Abstract In this study, I attempt to adopt the latest researching viewpoint in geography field --- Geographic Space Perception --- to explain the interaction between junior-high students and their environment (the campus). Through studying the mental feelings of the individuals towards their environments, such as their explanations, evaluations, and decisions, the research on geographic space perception would contribute a lot to offering more definite understandings to those who study the relationships between people and environments. Early in 1947, an American geographer, J.k.Wright, suggested that geographers should study the geographic knowledge of people from all walks of life, including farmers, fishers, industrialists, poets, painters,…etc.. It is his belief that the scope of geography should not simply be limited within the range of the objectively existential environments, but should include the geographic knowledge existing in people from all walks of life. As a result, the main idea of the study is not only a support to J.K.Wright, but also an expectation to have a further understanding to the concepts of geographic space perception by R.M. Downs. Downs supposed people receive the outer information through sense organs, and then develop the value systems of their own. However, when receiving the outer information, nobody knows whether or not the value systems will affect it at the same time. This is such an interesting puzzle that I hope to be able to answer it. Since the study itself puts emphasis on “perception”, the researching methods I adopted are (1) Questionnaire : to prove the hypothesis and to form a common law. (2) Methods of Phenomenology : to make up for the loss of positivism and to present the truth more thoroughly. The researching objects are the students taught by me in Wen-hsing Junior High School in Tainan City so that I can observe more closely. The researching area is Wen-hsing Junior High School, the same as any other public junior-high in Taiwan. There are two reasons why I selected Wen-hsing junior high. For one thing, it is more convenient for observation and research. For the other, in the face of a series of educational transformations, how can ordinary junior-highs deal with them ? Furthermore, how can students adapt themselves to the changes brought by transformations ? Educational transformations would renew the courses, teaching materials, and entrance examinations, which would also change the traditional ethics on campus to an extent. In such a new century, a warm, human, creative learning environment should no longer be a dream, but should really exist in our life. Only in this way can every educated child own an ideal space for learning. Key-words：Geographic space perception，Geosophy，Positivism，Phenomenology，Campus