Study Of The Culture Ecology Of Elementary Education In Hakka Regions

This thesis serves both as a survey of the interaction between Hakka culture and elementary education in the Hakka regions and an analysis of the value of the educational ecology of Hakka culture , displaying the features and the ecological significance of Hakka traditional education as well as clarifying the ecological function of inheriting and innovating Hakka culture . It tries to makes an investigation into the differences in elementary education and the cultural ecology in the Hakka regions, taking Yongding, Fujian Province as a case study . The paper holds that Hakka culture is a pattern which elementary education in the Hakka regions must adapt to for its existence and. development, while the Hakka spirit is the core of the construction of the campus culture in the Hakka regions, at the same time provides resources for the non-rational school management. The paper also presents five notable characteristics of Hakka traditional education, including its rapid development in Ming and Qing Dynasty and its frequent transformation in modern time. Besides, the construction of the content of the cultural ecology of Hakka traditional education helps to sift its merits from demerits, thus advancing today's elementary education.Since Hakka culture is isolated from elementary education to some extent, elementary education in the Hakka regions should bear the important resporsibility of inheriting and innovating Hakka culture by making best of the function of the sub-cultural ecology.The efficiency of modern transformation of Hakka culture has a direct influence on the differences of the cultural ecology of education and finally on the educational quality in different villages and towns in the Hakka regions.