A Study On Knowledge Contents of the Political Education in Our Senior High School﹘The Content Analysis of Current Civics Books

• Main Author: 鄒克蘭
• Other Authors: 鄧毓浩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11580626650056879379

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系在職進修碩士班 === 93 === There are no specific subjects of politics in our country. Basically, politics is included and taught in civics. As a result, civics textbooks become teaching materials of political education in school. The current national senior high school curriculum guides are revised in 1995. Now that the national curriculum guides changed, the courses were to be updated, in a time when the formerly monopoly doctrine of textbooks by the government was released. Facing the new “one curriculum, various textbooks” policy, teachers, who are at the “front” of the educational system, now should give care to the contents of textbooks. The main purposes of this research are to understand “the knowledge contents of the political education in our senior high school.” The main structure of this thesis is divided into two parts: First, by studying relevant literature: to understand rationales of political education, the general viewpoints of the academics on the knowledge contents, and relevant pragmatic researches, and eventually, to design the research tool of this paper. Second, by analyzing content : to explore the involved political knowledge contents of current (fourth release, 2004) senior high school civics textbooks, namely, Lungteng edition, Nani edition, Sanmin edition, and their differences. This research has the following conclusions about the current (fourth release, 2004) senior high school civics books: 一、About material of political education: All the three editions conform to the current national senior high school curriculum guides. 二、About the political knowledge genre: All the three editions emphasize “world politics and global development” and “establishment & operation of ROC political system”, while giving less pages to “basic principles of democracy.” 三、About subjects of political knowledge: 1.The following occupy more contents and are the core political knowledge of each textbook: “political change & development”, “characteristics of TW political culture”, “ROC’s political party system & electoral system”, “ROC’s diplomacy & world role”, “Cross-TW-Strait relationship”, “international organization and global cooperation.” 2.The following is given less treatment: “limited government”, “rule of law”, “checks & balances”, “popular sovereignty”, “political equality”, “majority rule”, “civic rights”, “civic responsibilities”, “basic principles of ROC constitution.” 3.The following is unique to each respective edition: “freedom & human rights” of Lungteng edition, “politics and life” and “policy decision” of Nani edition , and “public policy” of Sanmin edition. 4.Ideology of “Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine” now is unobvious. And “mass communications” still plays a minor role. 5.Presentation of main topics is mostly alike in content, with minor insufficiencies or differences. 四、About strategies of textbook compilation: 1.Explanatory skills such as ”itemizing narrative”, “exposition and explanation” , and “illustration by examples” are mostly used. 2.Heuristic skills like “analysis”, ”contrast and comparison”, “cause and effect”, and “deduction and induction” are more or less used in turn. 3.Applicative skills like “no preset or fixed answers”, “problem solution”, or “applicable in real life” are not commonly used. 五、About characters in textbooks: 1.Most of them are inclining toward male, contemporary, Chinese, political leaders, elites of society, scholars, or experts. 2.The most frequent political leaders are Lee Ten-hui , Chen Suei-bian, Chiang Chin-kuo, and George Washington. 3.The most frequent elite of society is Koo Chen-fu, a cross-TW-strait official. 4.The most referred political theories are from writings of foreign scholars and experts. 六、About form factors of textbooks: Lungteng edition has full range of editorial methods, but Nani edition presents more charts and explanatory illustrations, while Sanmin edition contains more word descriptions. 七、About exercises and assignments: There are the most complete designs of practice activities in Lungteng edition and Sanmin edition. And Sanmin edition has most varieties of practice or exercise. Based on the results of this research, for compilation of textbooks we offer the following suggestions or considerations: to cultivate citizen with “political literacy”, to improve the compiling patterns of “curriculum guides”, to increase portion about “civic responsibility”, to adjust arrangement of material by setting priority, to upgrade compiling and editing skills, to add summary to the main content, to reduce the quantity of exercise for students, and to offer follow-up studies.