| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 民俗藝術研究所 === 96 === The “Dragon Dance” plays a multi-educational function in sports, teamwork, folk art and folk music, it is a folk sports that is worth promoting in primary schools. This study focuses on the Dragon Dance in Taipei County that is active in practice and training during 2005 or earlier. (Dragon dance with roller-skates were excluded from the study). Just different from the other research; this study especially focuses on the effects of the Dragon dance from the students’ perspective as well as the ideology of school principal and teachers, to probe the vision in future.
This study involves a review of the historical development of the dragon dance and other related literature on the activity. Then a survey of telephone questionnaires were used as the primary method to collect basic information regarding dragon dance development in 207 elementary schools in Taipei County, also remark their location and foundation for comparison.
Secondly, on-site surveys were used to collect core detailed information about their dance props, training programs, and performance frequencies. Research technique of analysis, comparison, and statistics was used to synthesize their activity of similarity or differentiation.
A further review by field-survey and questionnaire were conducted individually to research their financial resources, training faculties, and challenges that the elementary schools may have encountered in maintaining a dragon dance program. Students who were part of the schools’ dragon dance programs were also surveyed about their thoughts on the purpose and meaning of the dragon dance. The results of the survey was also used to analyze their operation of similarities and dissimilarities.
The Taipei County Dragon dance experiences and the findings of this study relate the actuality and the future development of dragon dance, also describe the difficulties during the research and the prospection in future of this study.
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