부산대학교 도서관

In order to promote archaeological knowledge, archaeological museum today must be converted professional archaeological knowledge into the form of leaning that absorbed easily by visitors. The study discusses picture books of the Shihsanhang Museum and current situation that elementary teachers’ use of teaching with their ideas about museum education. The study adoptes purposive sampling of the multiple qualitative case studies, non-participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with six elementary school teachers to understand how they use picture books of the Shihsanhang Museum into teaching. It indicates the potentials and limitations from teachers’ using the museum picture books, and provides suggestions to elementary school teachers in the future. It is found that teachers think it is well-intentioned that museums published picture books, which helps establish students’ prior knowledge of the Shihsanhang Museum, raise interest of exhibits, and help their learning in the museum. In addition, applying picture books for teaching can improve teachers’ teaching professional skills. The main concerns of teachers’ use of picture books focus on topics related with their visit and close to the cognitive levels of students. They also recommend the need to combine resources to assist their presentation in teaching to engage students further in the classroom. Museum need to rethink the content of picture books, the appropriateness of the development of learning resources for teaching as well as integration of picture books to the exhibition and learning activities. During the visit, teachers can use more objects to guide students to learn and achieve better learning outcomes by follow-up activities into the school curriculum.