DIGITIZATION OF FESTIVAL CULTURE IN TAIWAN’S INDIGENOUS LITERATURE

Abstract

The term 'teaching practice' focuses on creative teaching and innovative research to promote multi-intelligence digital humanities and cultivate knowledge of indigenous culture through field investigation and humane care. Thus, the curriculum of indigenous literature is based on: (i) an awareness of local and tribal culture and care; (ii) an innovative teaching model (from a cognitive model to a cognitive skills model); (iii) an emotional model (care of ethnic humanities); (iv) a digital model (digital humanities and archives, learner-based learning, flipped classrooms and Problem Based Learning). The curriculum aims at guiding students to reflect on multicultural values, learn about holistic education, and focus on people's core concerns. Ritual part of Taiwan’s Atayal and Thao cultures are integrated into the innovative education of indigenous literature, and students are led to participate in field investigations of the ceremonies to complete the digital cultural documentary of the Atayal Thanksgiving ceremony and reach the innovative teaching goal of digital humanities education. This ensures student participation in tribal ceremonies, which in turn leads to practical knowledge and experience of indigenous cultures. Such an attempt contributes towards an action study for the digitization of indigenous culture. The research method combines text teaching with the action research, and the specific multi-teaching through digital documentary. The findings from the study reveal that students learn literature through action research more realistically and accurately, and thereby save indigenous cultures.