| Summary: | 碩士 === 文藻外語學院 === 創意藝術產業研究所 === 101 === This research aims to explore Chen Chu-Shi, a successful child art educator in the Pingtung area. He was the first in Taiwan to integrate religion, stories, morality, and traditional arts into child art education. Through an in-depth study of the examples of Chen’s personal unique child art education philosophy and practice as well as a systematic review of his biography that a great deal can be learned about him, it is expected that this research can serve as a fresh inspiration and provide suggestions for the younger generation working in child art education. Based on this purpose, narrative research, a qualitative research method, was adopted with relevant literature collected and organized by document analysis as well as field study investigations, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and other research methodologies and techniques. After the researcher’ long-term observation and analysis, the results of the case study are as follows:
1. Child art education philosophy can be traced back to the art education concepts in Creationism, putting stress on children’s psychological development in relation to child painting and advocating children’s free presentation of spontaneous and creative mental imagery.
2. Chen insisted on the idea of “beauty and goodness as one,” i.e. the education philosophy of cultivating goodness with beauty and appreciating goodness as beauty enables children to be nurtured into a whole person through inspiring aesthetic and moral education.
3. Chen’s child art education adhered to the promotion of local cultures and the use of related teaching materials. He focused on Buddhist Dharma and incorporated folk art in order to render the education inspiring, educational, and creative.
4. He inspired children to learn through lively and vibrant stories: Chen sparked the children’s rich imagination and creativity and sharpened their appreciation of art through Buddhist attire design, Bodhisattva paintings, and appreciation of Buddhist relics. In addition, Shadow Theater also enabled the children to improve their hand and brain coordination while having fun.
5. Chen spared no efforts in teaching art. Praised for his teaching methods and publications, he not only paved a promising way for child art education but also had numberless students under his tutelage; his professionalism and selfless love are highly admired in the field of education. He is considered a role model for future generations.
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