The Content Analysis of Taiwan Geographical Material in the Social Stueies Textbook

• Main Authors: Yu-Yu-Pin Tung, 董郁嬪
• Other Authors: Meng-Long Shih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5g642r

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 社會科教育學系碩士班 === 99 === Education of geography could strengthen pupils’ ability of observation, thought, imagine, reasoning and judgment, and it also helps cultivate pupils’ world-wide eyesight, ability of adaption, etc. The mastery of geographical knowledge helps pupils and adults to achieve their goal of comprehensive education. But the key to successful geography education depends on the arrangement of textbooks. So this study focuses on the third phrase of primary sociology education of 1998 edition, it studies the textbooksof Kangxuan, Hanlin and Nanyi from its fifth to its eighth volume, and it tries to study the content of the textbooks, what concepts does each edition use to introduce Taiwan, and what’s the difference between each edition when teaching the geographical concepts related to Taiwan. This study adopts content analysis method, firstly it studies the concepts in each version of Taiwan geography textbooks, and then it summarizes the times of representation of those concepts in each version and makes analysis and comparisons to find out the differences. The following is the conclusions after induction and study: 1.In those three versions, the geographical concepts, according to the total times they are represented in terms of main categries, cultural geography appears 1050 times in total, makes up 42.1% of the total proportion,while the geographical skills appear the least, 381times, only 15.3% of the total proportion. 2.The concepts related to Taiwan mainly appear in the fifth book of eachversion, with an occurrence ratioof over 60%. 3.Though there is difference in the name of units for each version, there is little difference in geographical concepts they choose. 4.For each version of Taiwan geography textbooks, every version chooses cultural geography as the main category in content, and then it comes natural geography, in the aspect of representation of geographical concepts, but they have different choices of connotation for concepts. This study majorly analyzes the Taiwan geography textbooks for primary pupils and it deplores the content of Taiwan geography textbooks, it aims to become the reference for the reediting of Taiwan geography textbooks for primary sociology courses in future.