| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 教育行政與管理學系 === 105 === This study aims to understand the administrative operations of boarder counselors in Taiwan’s independent halfway schools established based on the Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act and examine their differences as well as the reasons behind those differences in the hope to serve as future reference and improvement for halfway schools in terms of night-time and holiday care of students and the administrative operations of boarder counselors.
The data for this study was collected by interviews and document analysis. The results of the study show that the differences in the administrative operations of the boarder counselors in Taiwan’s halfway schools were found in the aspects of human resource allocation and planning, handling guidelines for accidents, methods of recruiting counselors, and connections and communication channels for external resources. And the reasons that caused the differences in the administrative operations of the halfway schools include regions and their surroundings, decision-making and styles of a leader, group cohesiveness of teaching and support staff, and supports from supervising agencies.
Moreover, the boarder counselors in Taiwan have encountered many challenges in administrative operations, such as insufficient manpower during night-time and holidays, lack of support for emergencies and accidents, recruiting conditions and job content, different views on the importance of written documents, difficulties in connection and communication of internal and external resources, authority to allow participation in related training and workshops, and also difficulties in training due to a high turnover of staff members. However, with the effort put in collecting information, accumulating experiences, continuing communication, improving counselors’ in-practice training, and changing survival strategies, the teaching and support staff in a halfway school may still maintain the balance between people, tasks, and resources so as to provide the students a safe and stable environment for boarding and learning.
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