The Return of Corporeal Subjectivity: Senior High School Students’ Awareness of Being in the Ecological Space

• Main Authors: LI, TE-EN, 李特恩
• Other Authors: Jung﹐Shu–Hwa
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y8np2h

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 藝術與人文教育研究所 === 107 === The post-industrial society is a knowledge-based society. It’s a new pattern of social relationship with science and technologies. Each kind of conflict of interest exists in each social class. For the people in leading class that consider knowledge as spiritual wealth are having evident distinction between people’s cleverness and mediocrity. The profession is an important factor leading to class divisions. Nevertheless, the education is one of a way to obtain the power. There is also a revolution in educational policies: Multiple entrance program regarding separation of examination and enrollment in college admission, drafted by Ministry of Education in 2002, to make students be well suited with the right place. In the post-industrial society, people who received higher education have a sacred position of dominance. Therefore, the high school students must keep their competitiveness for examination activities, and they gain the first class in knowledge domain. Hualien is on the East Coast of Taiwan, and its overall social development falls rather behind. Compared to the level of urbanization, Hualien is much less than northern regions. Most of population are located in the western areas, influenced by governing authority of professional technicians. For this reason, the youth in the fellowship activities of church write the evaluation sheets of schools and refuse to have personal interactions. Their body status and perceptions are inactivated, and their capability of being aware of their own existence is disappearing. Thus, there are four objectives of this study, that is, the subjectivity between teachers and students in the ecological space of the youth: dialogue mechanism, freedom of pose, perception amplification and awareness of self-existence. The participation observation is the research method of this study, and the second methods, such as interview method and triangulation are used to achieve data collection. Based on Michel Foucault’s critical theory of power space, I choose to conduct research on six high school students in youth fellowship of Mennonite Meilun Church in Hualien. Through participation observation, there are 6 units, 3 steps and 2 times of cycles for courses practice: body movements, perception exercises, object practice, spatial text, body language and emotional language. In addition, the aesthetic theory of Yi-Wei YAO and the games and impromptu elements of Augusto Boal as the main course factors. The last but not the least, Merleau-Ponty’s existentialism shows the connections of self-existence in order to achieve the regression of corporeal subjectivity. According to the results of study, in ecological space and in the dialogue mode between teachers and students, youth can regain the self-existence and achieve regression of corporeal subjectivity by using the perception posture to face the external world during the courses of ecological observation, bodily courses and feedback and reflection.