Daguoguo Elementary School, Taitung County - Walking through Taimali and listening to the stories of the land

Dawangguo Primary School is located in Dawang Village, surrounded by the cloud-shrouded Jinzhen Mountain and the Pacific Ocean. The village is ethnically diverse and has four tribes. This environment fosters students' cheerful and lively personalities. The school develops its curriculum with multicultural intelligence as the core. Through cross-domain curriculum planning and teaching, it hopes to enrich children's five senses and reinterpret the beauty of their hometown culture and art.
This project takes SDGS-11 Sustainable Town as its starting point. Through four major activities, namely "Listen to Vuvu's Painting", "Recreate Taimali" local music, "Create a new campus landmark - public art" and "The past and present of Taimali - light and shadow play", students are guided to develop their own aesthetics under the core of Dawang Aesthetics AESTHETIC (A-Aware, E-Explore, S-Sense, T-Transform, H-Hand, E-Think, T-Imagine, I-Cooperate).
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The program is designed through PBL project-based learning and SEL social emotional learning strategies. Students develop self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, interpersonal skills and responsible decision-making abilities during the program exploration process and finally advocate through light and shadow drama. During the process, we also participated in the school toilet renovation project and designed public art on the walls. We combined local media with mosaics to create the walls. In the open and interactive wall participation process, students learned about the interactive relationship between artworks and the environment, and preserved the story culture and expectations and memories of their hometown through the wall graphic design.
The teaching team at AESTHETIC shares the same core goal, which is to guide students to learn with confidence, cultivate their critical thinking, transform their personal life experiences into artistic inspiration, and enhance their artistic appreciation and creative performance. We also prepare courses together with the Elementary School attached to Shiga University in Japan through international exchanges.