In Search of Our Democratic Classroom

• Main Authors: Hao-Yun Chan, 詹皓雲
• Other Authors: 張月霞
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33011377654073981290

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 課程與教學研究所碩士班 === 105 === Given that school education had failed to practice democracy thoroughly, the researcher, as a fifth-grade teacher, tried hard to build a democratic environment in his classroom. The purpose of this study was to outline a realistic state of democratic growth during class meetings in the classroom, where the dialogues among the teacher and the students were collected in order to record and analyze their change. Thus, this study reviewed theories on democracy, community, class meeting and discourse analysis. Qualitative research method was adopted to depict the difficult progress in democracy cultivation. After the analysis, the researcher gave thick description from three aspects:(1) to see the process as a ship journey which always rises and falls on the sea,(2) to list democratic literacy and communication disability factors grounded from his students’ stories, and (3) to discuss some paradoxical values that influenced and shaped the development of this democratic classroom. From the study we drew conclusions: (1) The essence of democracy literacy is definitely “Love”. (2) Achieving democracy is to maintain the balance among subjects. (3) Democracy progress can be told by the dynamic change (from self-centered to open-minded) the rational insistence on good virtue. (4) Managing a democratic classroom needs a lot of patience. There’s no ideal model to follow, and it’ll never be totally accomplished. Nevertheless, we can always find democracy in our living fields. Finally, the researcher offered the suggestions to the schools and the future researchers caring about democratic education.