Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
This semester's "Local Chronicles and Community Survey" is one of the "Social Connection" courses required for the college bachelor's program. It draws on recording, narrative, and translation skills, combined with the Jianshi Township Atayal Experimental School as a social connection field, and responds to the Jianshi Township's "Music Town" aspiration. The course is co-constructed with three colleges within the school and the National Taiwan University College of Medicine. In the interdisciplinary social action, the deeds of Jianshi's first public doctor, Inoue Isuke (1882-1966), are adapted into a reader's theater "The Atayal Doctor is Here!" and performed in Jianshi Township at the end of the semester.
Results/Contributions
1. Students in the "Social Connection: Local Chronicles and Community Survey" course completed several small assignments. One of them was to explore the changes in their hometown in the context of regional history. The class guided them to search for Taiwan's century-old maps, the National Memory Database, and newspaper databases. One student discovered the connection between their family's origin and the rise of the oil industry, and the migration process of three generations within Miaoli. Finally, they combined anthropology and historical materials, and interviews to complete a 2000-word genealogy essay.
Keywords
History of Taiwan Literature, Social Connection, Community Survey, Local Records, Reader's Theater
Contact Information
劉柳書琴
wakenlily@faculty.hss.nthu.edu.tw