A Study on the Feasible Strategies and the Impeditive Factors for Elementary Teachers to acquire Knowledge of Elementary ─Schools in Tainan County, Taiwan

Author: Kuo-hung Tseng(Graduate Institute of Business and Management,Mei-ho Institute of Technology),Jung-tsung Chen(Gungcheng Elementary School, Tainan county),Mingchang Wu(Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education,National Yunlin University of Science and Technology),Shi-jer Lou(National Ping Tung University of Science and Technology)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 49, No. 2
Date：October 2004
Pages：65-88
DOI：10.3966/2073753X2004104902004

Abstract：

This study analyzed feasible strategies by which elementary school teachers may acquire knowledge, and the possible impediments to their knowledge acquisition. The subjects were four teachers in elementary schools in Tainan County, Taiwan. The teachers were interviewed and also given questionnaires. A total of 750 questionnaires were mailed out, of which 669 were completed and considered as valid. The return rate for the completed questionnaires was 93.44%. Data collected through the questionnaires was analyzed by percentage statistics, T-testing and one-way ANOVA to provide evidence in support of the hypothesis. [what WAS the hypothesis?] The results of the research are as follows: feasible strategies for acquiring knowledge include participation in seminars or academic symposiums, obtaining human resource assistance from outside of the school, participation in intellectual societies and support groups, observing and chatting with others, reading useful articles and books, and surfing the Internet; the impediments to acquiring knowledge include symposiums which do not meet the teachers' requirements, factors hindering advanced studies [for instance??], insufficient motives for learning, excess information to choose from, the inability to focus on the most relevant areas of knowledge, obsolete computer equipment and peripherals, inadequate capacity to use information technology, and insufficient time.

Keywords：acquisition of knowledge, feasible strategies for acquisition, impediments to acquisition, elementary school teachers

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