The Action Research of Student's Life Education Integration into the Four Noble Truths--The Case Study of the Second Year Students of an Elementary School in Nantou County, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Su-Chen Yang, 楊素真
• Other Authors: Chueh-Ming Shih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8vy5tg

碩士 === 南華大學 === 宗教學研究所 === 103 === 　　Nowadays, the most important subject of life for students in elementary school is primarily to know the truth of life, to establish correct understanding, to enable students to make right decisions, to produce inner power, and is capable enough to face the temptation. In the meaning of The Four Noble Truths said by the Buda, it helps human beings to constantly purify themselves, it guides selves and others to elevate to the beauty and kindness, and if such consummated life education can be conveyed to the students who will then be cultivated with samma-ditthi which will help understand the truth of life and solve problems in life. Therefore, according to the demand of life education of primary school students, this study develops the following research targets: (1) To focus on the demand of body, mind, and spirit of primary school students to explore the meaning in The Four Noble Truths which conforms the life education curriculum for the elementary school students. (2) To explore and transform the meaning of The Four Noble Truths into the understandable learning contexts for the second grade of an Elementary School students. (3) To apply actions to study and realize the learning of The Four Noble Truths life education curriculum, making the theory being tested and verified by practice. 　　In spreading the life education curriculum for elementary school students, the theory is to use the meaning of sutra, and this study is mainly focused on The Four Noble Truths from the Agama Sutra, and supplemented by relevant others. Among them, the meaning of Suffering, Accumulating, Extinction, and The Way will be extracted after analysis and only those which are applicable to the conception of cognition of elementary school students will be used.Because the meaning of The Four Noble Truths specifies the suffering, the cause of suffering, the way to extinct the suffering, and the realization of the calmness in mind, and all these help people across the hardship of life, therefore, this study substantially is about “person and self”, it is mainly to guide children to know both themselves and the meaning of life and to command them to have correct understandings of life. 　　To fit in The Four Noble Truths in the life education curriculum, the researcher plans the four major subjects which are understanding the truth of life, knowing the cause of suffering and happiness, experiencing the joy of peacefulness, and learning the way of happiness. There are 12 units for the teaching activities. The children’s storybooks, stories, video movies or teaching media which are appropriate for the learning of students are also applied in order to enhance the effect in fitting in The Four Noble Truths to the life education. By the action study of this kind of curriculum to analyze and summarize from The Four Noble Truths of the life education meanings which are proper for the elementary school students, to develop the teaching materials which will help the children to know the truth of life, to use the practical activities to have students truly experience the meaning of The Four Noble Truths, and then develop a fit-in life education curriculum from The Four Noble Truths and which is accepted by the public. And it's the purpose of this research paper.