| Abstract: | The purpose of the study is to understand the leisure benefits from the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus in Tainan City, and to probe into the related affecting factors. Due to the restrictions in resources, Chengkong elementary school is selected as the scope of the study. It is hoped that concrete suggestions about administration, its future plans, and its users of the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus can be proposed according to the results of the study. To achieve this goal, 221 students, 46 teachers, and 110 nearby residents, 377 people in total, are sampled as study objects, with a questionnaire survey designed by the researcher and deep interviews with 3 professionals chosen from the objects.
According to the statistical analysis, conclusions are obtained as follows.
1. The objects of study are highly conscious of the leisure benefits of the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus. In more detail, “educational benefits” is the highest, and the others are in order as “aesthetic benefits”, “psychological benefits”, “physical performances” and “social benefits”.
2. The students are obviously more conscious of the leisure benefits of the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus than the teachers. In the category of social benefits, remarkable differences are shown in students higher than in residents, and in residents higher than in teachers. And in other categories no such remarkable differences are shown.
3. Students in different grades make differences in all categories, while teachers with different teaching years make a remarkable difference in psychological benefits.
4. The objects are obviously conscious of the leisure benefits of the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus. Students make the most remarkable difference in aesthetic benefits, while teachers make that in psychological benefits, and residents make that in educational benefits.
5. The objects hold positive points of view on the importance of all the 12 leisure facilities. In more detail, to the students, “the beautiful plants”; to the teachers, “the plentiful green plants”, and to the residents, “the facilities for exercise” is the most important.
6. Objects’ consciousness of the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus is positively related to the 11 leisure facilities, exclusive of the facilities for exercise. The degree is highest for the students and residents in the criterion of the art works, while that is highest for teachers in landscape architectures.
Key words: the Plan of Good Looking Corners in Campus, leisure benefits, leisure facilities |
