| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育學系生命教育碩士班 === 103 === The study was purported to discuss the context of demand of death education for Taipei City elementary school counselors in addition to discussing the difference in demand for death education under different personal background and environmental variables. The study method adopts questionnaire survey, using self-prepared open questionnaire and structured questionnaire as survey tools. The objects of study comprise Taipei City elementary counselors in 2014 as population, adopting purposive sampling to draw a total of 224 valid samples from the elementary schools of 9 administrative districts. The following conclusion is drawn from the statistical data analysis of T-test and one-way ANOVA independent sampling:
1. The demand of death education consists of demand brought forward by Taipei City elementary counselors and were analyzed and categorized into eight levels, “meaning of life”, “death caring”, “pre-death caring”, “death preparation”, “death education”, “viewpoint of life and death”, “facing death” and “post-death world”.
2. The demand of death education from Taipei City elementary school counselors was medium to high level while the “Meaning of Life” and “Death Education” were two dimensions accounting for the highest demand of context.
3. Different age, teaching seniority, school size, prior contact with death incidents in students, prior experience in grief counseling, and prior reading on books or articles related to death in Taipei City elementary school counselors, have not shown significance in the overall demand of death education but it was revealed in some levels.
4. Different gender, seniority of counselors, education, religion or belief, prior discussion on death issues with students, study in courses or seminars related to death in Taipei City elementary school counselors, have shown significance
in the overall and partial demand of death education.
In sum of aforementioned research conclusion, the study proposes suggestions for the future planning and development of seminar courses on death education for Taipei City Elementary School Counselors as reference for relevant departments or follow-up research.
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