Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Kang Chiao Bilingual Elementary School (2011 CyberFair Project ID 6714)
Taiwan, Xinbei
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations

We estimate 21 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Kang Chiao Bilingual High School is located at the southwestern hill side of Xindian Dist., Xinpei City, with most students coming from greater Taipei area. Being a bilingual and experimental school, our beliefs are experiment, bi-languages, pastoral and abilities. Each student is expected to know and love his/her country land and embrace the global challenge. Kang Chiao students are mostly from middle and upper class families, therefore, being rich with civility and willing serve people has always been the idea that we practice as the educational policy. Smangus people’s respect for nature, support of the tribe, love for the tribe, are key factor to weave an harmonious world, which is the perfect role model for Kang Chiao students.

Project Description: Although Taiwan is a developed country with well-established democratic environment and modern economic system, we, in this article, will explore a very special living and business model at Smangus aborigine in Taiwan – the Smangus Communism Model. The model describes a way of making living and tribe development based on the mind-share of helping and sharing. In order to in depth understand their daily life and how the model is operating in practice, we have not only studied reference articles and conduct questionnaire analysis, but also visited Smangus at the remote mountain to interview the leaders and key people. The objectives of this research project are to investigate how they unite the people’s opinions into a common vision and realize the vision together with joyful mind, how they transform their aboriginal tradition and culture into a self-sustainable tribe development model, how they protect the heritage inherited from their ancestors, and how they build such a beautiful Shangrila at the far mountain in the modernized Taiwan country.

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