Praxis and positions of social activists' participating in Community Universities

• Main Author: 林邦文
• Other Authors: 何青蓉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24hf4q

博士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 成人教育研究所 === 97 === Abstract The starting of Taiwan Community University (CU) was initiated from the results of social movement including education reform and it also attracted some social activists’ participation. The first CU, Wenshan CU, was established in 1998, social activists from areas of community building, environmental and labor movements etc. have engaged in CUs since and became founders, initiators, members or teachers, etc. The intention of this study was to select six CUs among the national wide eighty four CUs: ie. Yungho CU, Panchiao CU, Ludi CU, I-Lan CU, Tainan City CU and Austronesia CU and ten leaders with social movement background to research their achievements, personal change and the ways for these ten leaders to engage in above mentioned CUs. Constant comparative method for constructivism approach was employed, in-depth interviews and secondhand interviews manuscripts were selected to study how these ten CUs leaders change or not after they have shifted to different social movement field, and the praxis through participation in CUs. i.e. discuss the strategies Results showed as follows: 1. their political consciousness were developed before they joined the CUs; 2. the reasons they work at CUs correlates influencing on a precursor of the CU movement , Wu-hsiung Huang; 3. at the first beginning, they did not embedded the concepts of “lifelong education” or “lifelong learning” to promote social movement, but through innovate ways of education and strive to achieve the ideal of Taiwan social reconstruction; 4. community of practice , learning by doing, co-learning and learn for each other’s work are the ways they learned to do the CUs; 5. the fame concept in sociology has been applied analytically in the activists’ ways to develop an new interpret various kind meaning of CUs civil society movement; 6. found personal change are categorized as self-confidence, become practical; 7. all interviewed leaders persist their original ideas and visions, they don’t change because of participating in CUs; 8. major strategies of action were comprised to fashion civil society movement are networking, resource agent, more purposeful educational guiding, and problem-posing teachers ; The focus of this study was on these ten CU activists who with experiences of social movement, to research their changes and abides after varied of movement field. The conclusion indicates that even running of the community university has encountered various difficult situations; the ideal is still adhering to them resolutely. The future CU development should have more esteem on their experiences and the position of CU should also make correlated adjustment.