英文摘要 |
Taiwan’s textbooks researchers were accustomed to using text analysis methods in content analysis, but seldom focused on history. Therefore, the complexity of the textbook development process, interwoven with social context, academic trends, and interpersonal activities as it was, was rarely explained. This study employs oral narration in an attempt to obtain data which could not be realized using text analysis. We strive to better understand the experience of key individuals and their work in textbook development and how the official knowledge was formed through interviews of these persons. This paper aims to explore the development process of elementary school social studies textbooks when Taiwan was under martial law and the curriculum view in the textbooks using the oral history of Mr. Ping-Chun Tu, one of the main textbook authors during the period. Based on his oral history and with reference to relevant documents and literature, questions can be divided into three phases for discussion: 1952-1962, 1962-1979, and 1979-1988. The main conclusions are: (1) Social studies textbooks before the cancelling of Martial Law featured the purpose of social adaptation and a type of disciplinary curriculum structure; (2) the textbooks were the product of personal erudition and national ideology. |