Turning From a Mechanic to an Entrepreneur：The Life History of a Technician

• Main Authors: Mei-Huei Huang, 黃美惠
• Other Authors: 劉曉芬
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56826498458613669023

博士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 技術及職業教育研究所 === 102 === By life narrative this research collected the story of a factory teacher who took U.S. Aid to get advanced education as well as his life development, learning and employment. Thru the participant interview, data reconstruction and narrative interview, this study tried to re-build the whole picture of a person that was preliminarily educated and trained after World War II at Taiwan Railway mechanic training school and then cultivated by U.S. Aid technological and vocational education system to become a master and start his employment and enterprise experiences. The study explored factors that turned a tech-vocational mechanic to entrepreneur: the family background, technology education and training, and the establishment of his enterprise. Across from postwar, with fundamental training at Taiwan Railway and the follow-on tech-vocational education promoted by USAID, till the period of Taiwan economy take-off and cross-strait communication, this study tried to tell the refined life story of a tech-vocational person by disclosing a significant page in the great era on Taiwanese tech-vocational education history, and the social history environmental experience in which this mechanic worker transformed to entrepreneur class. By life experience analysis of the participant, the research tried to reveal how, Robert, based on his know-how, studied, employ and founded his enterprise—the historical vein, life development approaches and the life icon of activist factor, as well as the life narrative focused on home. First of all, it sorted out that the road for a poor to study was—for the mercy of heaven, strive for the best and seamless connection. Secondly, it described the education opportunities during history changes, the technology enterprise in the era of economy take-off and as a Taiwanese merchant crossing strait into China. Major reasons for a black-handed mechanic to turn to a entrepreneur are the activist’s talent, characteristics, learning and altitude. Finally, I call on the attention of our society to those tech-vocational people who contributed for national development in silence. Hope that the refurbishment of technology education would reserve a path for fundamental technology education.