A Study between Social Capital and Senior Active Learning:A Case Study of Taoyuan County

• Main Authors: Hung-Chin Chiang, 江鴻津
• Other Authors: Chuan-HuHung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97324788656109075178

碩士 === 元智大學 === 社會暨政策科學學系 === 100 === To adapt the coming of an aged society, the education of elderly gets more and more attention. Since 2008, Taiwan has started to put up the setting of Senior Active Learning Center, and it hoped to supply an exclusive learning situation to prompt the elderly to attend and learn in it. As a result, the purpose of the research is to discuss the development of social capital of the elderly attending the senior learning, and the effect of their social capital to their learning. That is, the research will try to find the formation and accumulation of those attended whose social networking, social norms and social trust at first. Second, it also tries to analyze the effect played by their social capital in their learning process. In order to realize the relationship between the development of the elderly’s social capital and senior learning participation, the research interviewed 22 participants face to face by in-depth interview. By doing so, the research got the following findings: 1.There are differences among the social capital of the elderly. 2.The senior learning will prompt the rising of their self-value. 3.Social capital will affect the learning adaptation and satisfaction of the senior’s learning. 4.Social capital affects the participation of the elderly’s learning. According the lasting of senior leaning, the elderly will develop different social capital that will produce certain functions, prompt their learning effect and satisfaction, and make them realize the importance of social capital in their learning.