A Narrative Study on the Life Experiences of Three Junior High School Principals with Different Ethnic Origins in Pingtung County

• Main Authors: Wu, Chia-chen, 吳佳真
• Other Authors: Chen, Cheng-chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89348406702201515679

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教育行政研究所 === 102 === This study applied “narrative research” approach proposed by Riessman (1993) and used purposive sampling to pick out three junior high school principals in Pingtung County with different ethnic origins (indigenous, overseas expatriated and Hakka) for the study. Through the process of attending to experience, telling about experience, transcribing experience, analyzing experience and reading experience, I aim to explore and represent the stories about three principals’ life experiences by in-depth interviews. Three principals with different ethnic origins collided with mainstream culture in their growth processes. The baptism of different culture shocks nourished nutrients on their roads to principals, thus forming parts of their personalities as well as affecting their life values and shaping various distinctive educational philosophy: the indigenous principal commits himself to the preservation and promotion of indigenous cultural dance with music and sports activities; the overseas expatriated principal who has accepted the Christian faith since childhood emphasizes the importance of character education and home education; the Hakka principal with “stiff-necked” and “perseverant” spirits not only manages the school but also founded the first halfway home-school in Taiwan, which takes care of dropouts with family dysfunction. All of them integrate cultural elements in their life experiences into current school operations, creating individual management styles.