Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Cishan Elementary school (2013 CyberFair Project ID 7402)
Taiwan, Kaohsiung City
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks

We estimate 7 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Our school, Jing Yi elementary school is located in Nei-Men, which is a country sides place in Kaohsiung city. Therefore, people here are simplicity. We have developed education network by limit resource and exporters from local. It can broaden the school lesson and the student’s horizon. Our community has a lot of crops such as longan, litchi and thorny bamboo. School is part of the community. We should always collaborate with them to glory the local feature.

The local cultures in Nei- Men are Sung Chiang Battle Array and Dancing Drum Array; Nei-Men are also the source of well-known occupation Table chiefs. Anthurium is in Nei-Men is become one of the main incomes of farmers with the increasing of output values. Beekeeping is very popular in Nei-Men therefore honey is also a specialty here.

Project Description: One of the ancestors of the Nei-Men area Pingpu Tribe settle in them, including the door to reclamation and leave the relics of history,The school students are also part of descendant of the Pingpu, but because the children assimilate easily into the other dominant culture. They has forget their own culture and history, lead the children to look back at history, it is through the study of the topic, follow the historical context of the plains, to understand our ancestors had left in the land of cultural monuments, cultural Chasingthe end to get the kids to identify with their own culture, and thus their own cultural heritage.

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