Exploring the Transformative Learning of the Change in Ethnic Attitudes among Han Students: A Case Study of Indigenous Culture Club Members at Yongho Community College

• Main Authors: Fu-Ru Lee, 李馥如
• Other Authors: 蘇雅惠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48481408708091370116

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 農業推廣學研究所 === 95 === Indigenous people are the minority in Taiwan. In general they have long been discriminated by Han people who stereotype the indigenous people in a negative way. The prejudice created an obstacle of the development of multicultural society. The indigenous movement in recent years wakened the society to pay attention to the issues of indigenous people and many discourses were produced. But there is a lack of the discussion of perspective change among Han people - the change of ethnic attitudes toward indigenous people. The intention of this study was to understand the practical situation in ethnic relationship curriculums and the findings were analyzed by Mezirow’s transformative learning theory. One learner’s ethnic attitude can be changed by transformative learning. The study explored this kind of learning experience of nine members of indigenous culture club at Yongho Community College, and their participation of ethnic relationship curriculums for more than two years. The transformative learning of those Han students’ ethnic attitudes was discussed. Han students presented their learning styles such as non-reflective learning and reflective learning differently in many dimensions of ethnic attitudes which had two perspectives: ethnic cognition and the tendency of ethnic behavior, and displayed different levels of empowerment and practice. Finally, this study concluded “the change process of ethnic attitudes” in comparing Taylor’s “intercultural competency: a transformative learning process” in 1994: 1. Entering the indigenous field 2. Deep cultural contact 3. Cognitive orientations 4. Behavioral learning strategies 5. The change of ethnic attitude