Discussing representative landscape of Taiwan: From viewpoints of college students
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Huang, Hsieng-Cheng
Abstract
The interview method in qualitative research was used here in order to explore what is the representative landscape of Taiwan from the viewpoints of college students, and to discuss the landscape representativity by finding out the representative reasons. In addition, the environmental cognition and the composing context of landscape images would be discussed by analyzing the college students’ notions of Taiwan. There were fifteen college students participated in the interviews. The texts of response from college students were analyzed and discussed by using “Grounded Theory”. The results of this study showed that there is a very divergent difference between respondents. The representative landscape included “Taipei 101”, “Taroko”, “farmland in rural area”, “night markets”, “Alishan scenic area”, “Sun Moon Lake scenic area”, “mountain landscape in high altitude area”, “temples”, “historic monuments”, “National Palace Museum”, and “night scenes in cities”. These landscapes can be categorized in four types, (a) well-known or important buildings, (b) well- known scenic area, (c) places or environments relating with living and culture, and (d) landscapes show the natural characteristic. Except the four representative landscape types, there are six dimensions attributed to construct the landscape representability, “speciality”, “famousness”, “cultural meaning”, “identification”, “familiarity”, and “exhibition”. “Experience” was the main factor of landscape cognition, and it can be differentiated between “direct experience” and “indirect experience”. In this study, indirect experience was more effective because of abundant knowledgeable information and constructed image. The environmental and migrated experiences in childhood/teenage didn’t have significant influence, but affected environmental cognition in other aspects. In this study, there was no significant relationship between preference and representativity because they were different concepts.
Subjects
Taiwan
Landscape Image
Place
Experience
Qualitative Research
SDGs
Type
thesis
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