| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 成人與繼續教育研究所 === 97 === The subject of this study is Storytelling Moms in Cao-Tun Elementary School. This study is to understand their motivation, the methods and process of service learning, and try to find out the difficulties they meet and the solutions. Also, the study analyzes how service learning influence Storytelling Moms and help them find out the meaning and values of their lives which can be considered as female's self reflection.
The methologies used are semistructured interviews, document analysis method and participant observation, including the documents of volunteers training and participanting observation of six Storytelling Moms and their leader in Cao-Tun Elementary School.
According to this study, these conclusions are summarized as follows:
1.These Storytelling Moms’Motivation is to enrich their lives and let students realize that life is precious. Through the process, they share their experiences in group cooperation and bring the strengh of the group into full play.
2.The procedures of storytelling for these Storytelling Moms in elementary school can be seperated into training period, what's before-the-performance,putting on the performance, and what's after the performance. In the training period, every one builds good companionship and encourages each other. Before the performance, they make the whole plan for the story’s compiling, when putting on the performance, they usually have good unspoken consensus, skills and interaction with students. After the performance, they review and reflect on the feedbacks from students and themselves.
3.These Storytelling Moms in elementary school may meet many difficulties or be frustrated from the lack of professional background knowledge and the unbalance of orgnization's structure.
4.As for these Storytelling Moms in elementary school,storytelling is a good way to understand the children's school life,to realize the meaning and values of life,to strengthen family's feelings and so as to be willing to join school affairs together. Through the service learning,the Storytelling Moms may grow and improve their interpersonal relationship. With continuing reading, they may have more different viewpoints about life.
Last, there are still some suggestions for schools, Storytelling Moms in Cao-Tun Elementary School, related authorities and researchers who care about this topic.
Key words：female volunteers, Storytelling Moms, service learning, service learning process.
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