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The Studies on school history can contribute to public attention to the history of a school and its cultural traditions, and to construct an excellent environment of dialogue and thinking. Such studies can, in turn, help develop unique culture and life style which only belongs to the school. Primary schools and junior high schools have always been regarded as transitional or tool-type entities. Their historical documents, files, data, relics, etc. are not paid much attention to and not kept very well. Due to this, the author attempts to collect oral history from deep interviews and supplement credential historical data for the history of Nan-Shi Primary School. Therefore, in the research titled " The Research of Postwar History of Taoyuan Nan-Shi Primary School, " the author studies, primarily in the part of historical memory, on the school annals of 60th, 70th, 80th, and 90th anniversaries, "Pingjen City Annals" , "Taoyuan County Annals" and "My Hometown Taoyuan" magazines. Besides, the oral history is retrieved through deep interviews of the staff (including former and present principals, directors, teachers, and school workers), alumni and students. Because the school history only includes introductions to elite teachers and school chronicles, etc., it is lack of history from the bottom up, i.e., the angle of public history. Those precious study results can help refine it. Through discussions of school activities of the past, school history gets vivid in students’ learning experience and let them recognize and cherish their own school. Historical memory vividly states the emotions in our daily life and makes the past, the present and the future balance-interactive. The author will regard the study on the history of Nan-Shi Primary School as her everlasting career. With such historical memory of the past, the author can help bridge it with that of the present and the future of the school. Keywords: Nan-Shi Primary School, School History, Oral History, Public History, History From the Bottom up, Daily Life, Pingjen City
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