A Study on Socio-scientific Issues Instruction and Scientific Literacy—the Issue of Indigenous Relocation.

This research is concerned with indigenous community resilience, that is, how to integrate indigenous and scientific knowledge for enhancing community resilience? This project offer a model, integrate socio-scientific issues (SSI) into the science curriculums , and promote the scientific interest of primary school students with informal science education activities.

Climate change also affects indigenous community in the mountains of Taiwan. They are facing the threat of disaster caused by extreme weather, causing involuntary migration and even death and injury; on the other hand, due to the loss of traditional knowledge, the population drift, social changes such as the aging of the community have accelerated these impacts.

This research takes a Paiwan community in south Taiwan as an example. House is a very important place in Paiwan culture and cannot be abandoned randomly. That is why after Morakot typhoon, some community people have to move to permanent house, but they frequently travel back to their old community which is always recognized their living place.

After suffering several different types of natural disasters, especially in recent years, the natural and man-made hazards are discovered from the community history. This project practices data collection, interview, and statistical analysis. The environmentaltolerance of tribes(nature) and the adaptation countermeasure(humanities) of local people are gradually constructed. Integrating disasters and relocation villages issues into science educationcurriculumsraises students' interest in science, and increases local people sensitivity to disasters in order to enhances community resilience.