A Study of Curriculum Content and Practice of General Economic Education in Universities:the Case of Northern Taiwan

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系 === 94 === General education is very important in university. It can teach undergraduate student to become a “holistic man” and it is a manhood education. And it can also help student get all round and diverse knowledge, etc. The main purpose of this research is to in...

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Main Authors: CHI, PO-TUNG, 紀博棟
Other Authors: HUANG, MEI-YUN
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02584500600570428883
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Summary:博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系 === 94 === General education is very important in university. It can teach undergraduate student to become a “holistic man” and it is a manhood education. And it can also help student get all round and diverse knowledge, etc. The main purpose of this research is to inquire curriculum content and practice of general economic education in northern Taiwan universities. This study had inquired and researched many theses, documents, five dimensions and 34 problems of general economic education. This dissertation of Doctor of Philosophy employed documental analysis, qualitative research method, and quantitative research method to investigate and analyze the general economic educational curriculum content and practical problems of northern Taiwan universities. This study has discovered some findings including several important conclusions and concrete suggestions. The results of this study were concluded: 1. From the studies and analyses of many researches, general economic educational curriculum or other general educational curriculum must be as important as other professional educational curriculum. 2. But the quantities of studies and the concentrations of general economic educational curriculum were fewer than professional and other general education. 3. This study had analyzed sixteen general economic education theories and it had also found that these theories could improve general economic education. 4. From the documents of northern Taiwan universities, researcher can understand the different practices of general economic education in northern Taiwan universities. And the concentrations of general economic education were fewer than other general education. 5. From the interviews of staffs of center for general education in most northern Taiwan universities, researcher can understand the different organizational practices, cognitions, and attitudes of general economic education in northern Taiwan universities. 6. From the interviews of teachers, researcher can understand the different teaching practices, cognitions, and attitudes of general economic education in northern Taiwan universities. 7. From the studies of the questionaire and analyses of statistics of students, researcher can also understand the different learning practices, cognitions, and attitudes of students of general economic education in northern Taiwan universities. 8. So, educational policies and practices of universities must be reformed and that the cognitiive and attitudinal changes of staffs, teachers, and students of the general economic education are very important things. And from the results and suggestions of study of this dissertation of Doctor of Philosophy, students of northern Taiwan universities and other undergraduate students can become really ideally modern citizens of having basic economic concepts.