Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教育學研究所 === 102 === This research intends to understand the development and implementation of international education in fifth grade arts and humanities curriculum, through action research in teaching. The goal is to investigate students’ learning effectiveness and teachers’ feedback and reflection, after international education was incorporated into arts and humanities curriculum. Based on observations in teaching scenes and further analysis, students are lacking in active caring in others’ wellbeing and global awareness. It is hoped that the implementation of the curriculum could provide an opportunity to observe if students’ learning effectiveness could be improved.
This research adopts action research, and the targets are two fifth grade classes, a total of forty-nine students. Qualitative methods also apply to evaluate if the curriculum achieve its intended goal in raising students’ learning effectiveness. During the research, the researcher incorporates materials of international education into multimedia arts and humanities curriculum. Teaching is conducted through group discussions, group projects and project presentations, and student interviews, learning sheets and feedbacks were collected and analyzed to evaluate learning effectiveness.
Four conclusions have been drawn from this research:
1.Through situational analysis, the strengths and
limitations of the arts and humanities curriculum can be outlined.
2.Lesson design is based on two major themes, international education and arts and humanities education. Class content design is based on students’ experience; materials include multimedia and a variety of teaching methods.
3.Course implementation shows combined teaching materials with life experience and timely adjustment are beneficial to effective learning and building a complete teaching program.
4.Evaluation shows that the course is beneficial in raising students’ learning effectiveness; international education in arts and humanities is beneficial in raising students’ learning effectiveness as well.
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