Exploring Plausible Futures of Adult Female''s Learning

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Mei Chan, 詹小玫
• Other Authors: 陳國華
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48096373481241286146

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 未來學研究所碩士班 === 98 === In a male-centric patriarchal society, a woman in the family usually plays a role to help her husband as a good wife or a good mother. Women’s taking part in communal activities above manual ones or pursuing self-accomplishment is easily ignored, abased, or constrained. The female learning has been confined to household education or well-skilled training. It makes women unable to identify the value of their own existence or self-accomplishment. However, with the reduction of the need of time in housework or the time span of caring children, contemporary women will have more time to take part in more activities by virtue of different channels and forms so that they may enlarge their life circles, enrich their lives, or find new opportunities and new arenas so as to promote themselves through effective and purposive learning. For women, learning, excepting for its extraordinarily different implications, presents itself much more diversely. This thesis, first of all, analyses what the motives of interviewees are from a holistic point of view? Further, from an individualistic perspective, it analyses the variables of sex, age, occupation, technology, marriage, and children, and so on, so as to evaluate different types of demand for learning. It also attempts to figure out advantageous and disadvantageous factors facing the interviewees. What are their opportunities of learning? What are their limitations? This thesis is to find out key factors, affecting their learning, as the foundation to ideally depict the scenarios of learning. Finally, based upon the factors stated above, plausible scenarios of learning are constructed.