The Meaning of “Kid’s Bookhouse” to Underprivileged Children in Rural Areas — from the Perspective of Children

• Main Authors: Tsai, Yu Chu, 蔡羽筑
• Other Authors: Cheng, Tung Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s5euc9

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 教育研究所 === 103 === Recently, in order to be based on the spirit of caring for the under-priviledged minority, Ministry of Education promoted vary forms of after-school programs. The purpose of the program was to carry out education guidance of under-priviledged children.　But after-school programs which were designed from the adults’ perspectives to arrange the learning in the past, the results were not as well as they expected .The researcher started to think: “ What kinds of education was needed for these under-priviledged children? “ Therefore, this study took “ Kid’s Bookhouse ” as an case. From the perspective of junior high school students, the study was carried out mainly by interviews and proved by field note, reflection journal and documents to explain these phenomena from the field, reconstruct these information and meaning. The results of the four junior high school students were presented as a comprehensive discussion. The resulting conclusions are showed as following: 1. In terms of school work needs: (1) The teachers in the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” could provide different teaching strategies that depend to the different learning difficulties of the child. Meanwhile, children could express their ideas easily in the classroom by two-way teacher-student communication. (2) Because the number of the faculty was decreasing, the teacher in the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” used the computer-assisted instruction. It led the child to be unable to seek help from teachers when she faced the learning difficulties. 2. In terms of interesting needs: (1) Instead of "homework finishing" ,the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” developed after-school program from the children’s ability and understand their needs to explore careers. (2) Children found their own identity and self-confidence in variety programs: concert, bicycling training courses and so on . (3) Non-mandatory after-school learning activities made children have more autonomy in choice. 3. In terms of interesting needs, the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” had a life care function, provided dinner, parenting care, personal hygiene teachings and physical needs of the child. 4. In terms of psychological needs: (1) To create a secure environment and a positive attitude of teacher-student relationship in the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” , teachers played three roles : a heart-to-heart talking as a friend, interaction as family and the teacher. By understanding student's emotional state and learning, it paid immediate attention to help the child's psychological needs. (2) Parents and children had different standpoints of the “Kid’s Bookhouse”. The parents took the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” as a place to remedy schoolwork, but children tought the “Kid’s Bookhouse” as a place to develop hobbys, engaged in recreation and promoted social skill. Faced with cognitive conflict between parents and children to the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” , the teacher played a role of communication bridge between parents and children to improving parent-child relationship. 5. In terms of social　needs, by interaction with peers, the children found a sense of belonging in the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” . However, the huge decreasing of student indirectly affected the desire of child to come to there and their interpersonal patterns. 6. Related factors affecting four children in the “ Kid’s Bookhouse” were due to the child itself, hidden behind a complex family and school condition: (1) At the individual level was for children's own personality, learning attitude and poor relationships. (2) At the household level was for family patterns, parental expectations and the interaction between parent-child education. (3) At the school level was for teachers teaching methods and attitudes, school fatigue caused by classification of students, teacher-student interaction. Finally, in accordance with the findings, the researcher gave advice for after-school tutoring agency and following-up studies.