A study on perception of competence of aboriginal junior high school students in Taiwan

[[abstract]]Individul ideas and actions are impacted by abstract perception of competence, which leads everyone to succeed or fail. In the field of education, students’ school adaptation is related to their perception of competence very much. There is flooded with conjectures about competence of aboriginal in our society, but that may be a subjective ideology of the Hans to differentiate between cultures. So, this study in order to understand perception of competence of aboriginal junior high school students, and analyze how do students’ school-adaptation strategy influenced by their competence conception. To fulfill the above-mentioned purposes, classroom observation and semi-structured interview techniques are employed to collect empirical data from aboriginal junior high school students in east Taiwan. The major findings are as follows: (1) aboriginal students’ basic perception of competence result from social identity ; (2)family is mediator of competence formation as school; (3) aboriginal students are not wholly to conform to institutionalized conception of competence; (4) there are diversity of class in aboriginal students’ perception of competence.