高雄市「客語生活學校」之政策「執行過程」分析
摘要
After Democratization, the long suppressed ethnic subcultures have been revitalized in Taiwan. Multiculturalism not only has become a consensus nowadays, but also been institutionalized through the legislation of laws safeguarding minority rights and the establishment of governmental agencies like The Council for Hakka Affairs and The Council for of Indigenous Peoples. However, these endeavors of recognizing and respecting minority cultural status and rights cannot effectively avert the trend of gradually vanishing of the minority languages in Taiwan. For this reason, the ”Mother tongue learning” in the obligatory education has been adopted as one of the major policy responses.Academic research has found that policy implementation process served as intermediate variable between policy formation and implementation results. The implementation results are thus indirectly affected by this implementation process and implementation process consists of behaviors of ”inter-organizational implementation”, ”bureaucrats” and ”target group”. This research focuses on the policy implementation of ”Hakka Language School” in the primary schools in Kaohsiung City started from 2003. By using research methods of case study, literature review, in-depth interview, and participant observation, we purposively analyze the policy implementation process of ”Hakka Language School” in order to evaluate and explain the policy implementation which is crucial in determination of the policy outcomes.