| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 97 === “Immigrant” has become an emerging issue to be dealt with in recent years in Taiwan. Immigrant refers to China and Southeastern-Asian woman who is married to a Taiwanese. Those women then become triple minorities in gender, ethnicity, and stratum. In order to improve their lives, and facilitate culture adaptation for immigrant, schools are the ideal places to promote immigrant education. Thus, school principals should develop leadership on immigrant education and care about the fairness of achievement, social justice and respectful environment. Thus, our government set up three “Immigrant Center of Learning” in northern part, midland and southern part of Taiwan. As a result, Jong-Jen Elementary School in Tao-Yuan County was chosen to establish an “Immigrant Center of Learning”.
By employing a case study approach, this study aims at understanding what is the arrangement of the “Immigrant Center of Learning”? How an elementary school principal promotes immigrant education, what the principal’s educational beliefs and goals are, and what the challenges the principal encountered.
Participants of this study were composed of the principal, four directors, three senior section heads, two teachers and four volunteers of immigrant. Data collection included observation, formal and informal interviews, and document analysis. Data analysis employed the six steps of Constant Comparison Method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Data trustworthiness includes triangulation, feedback and member check from the instructors for the accuracy of data interpretation.
The primary findings indicate that the principal plays the important rule on the center. He promotes education on immigrant actively. In addition, the “Immigrant Center of Learning” is regarded as a “family-like” place for those immigrant, who enjoy coming to the school to learn Chinese and other cultural adaptation courses. They call the center “a joyful paradise” because it’s a place they can make new friends and laugh together. Through attending the course and activities, they gradually find their confidence and self-esteem. As a result, they were proud of being members of the center.
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