教師社群：善導書院-蝸牛媽媽的故事

教師社群：善導書院-蝸牛媽媽的故事

(撰文/謝宇情，季慕華審稿)

「白色巨塔的小螺絲釘」團隊日前(110/12/24中午12時至下午14時於至善樓12樓)特別邀請善導書院陳文靜院長至教師社群，向多位文藻的師長們分享她對於創建書院及幸福食間的理念和想法，並給予更多的USR未來發想。

善導書院至今已成立24年，專門照顧在地孩童、老人及失業婦女。書院緣起院長個人的辛苦的經驗，為協助並帶領一群單親媽媽所成立的一個機構，以易子而教的教育方式，成功的輔助許多叛逆的孩童轉型成功。至今這些孩子已成為書院的核心，許多的守護天使更陸續地加入這個大家庭，書院在民國97年完成登記成為公益團體。

院長以分享個人家庭背景開始，說明社會問題的起因和困境。例如：家暴、單親婦女、子女扶養權、缺乏就業技能、隔代教養、中年失業等，皆是社會底層的日常。儘管如此，院長仍堅持不領取社會補助金，深怕成為「習慣」之後更無動力擺脫宿命，因此積極尋求自立。

院長也以一些孩童為例：居住環境殘破不堪、長期受虐、生活在扭曲的價值觀下，這些坎坷的遭遇都不是一般人能體會的。某些案例甚至發生在尚未就學的幼童，面臨失親、家暴、性侵、長輩吸毒、犯罪、失智或重度精神障礙，院方以代替家庭輪流照顧，協助就醫、就學，導引孩子回歸家庭溫暖，減少誤入歧途的機會。

院方積極提供院童多元陪伴教育，例如：補救教學、品格教育、生命教育、農事教育、家事和生活教育和社區服務。孩子們進書院的第一件事就是要學會煮飯，學會獨立，並學會對自己負責。在書院裡，孩子們學會念弟子規，也學會飯前要禱告謝恩，要懂得感謝爸爸媽媽的養育之恩，感謝老師們的教導，感謝那些幫助過自己的人。

院長滿懷著母親的心情，不免擔心二十年後的善導書院，尤其是自己不在了之後，書院又會面臨什麼問題；因此，院長創建了現在的「幸福食間」。目的使身處在那個空間的人都能夠感受到「當下」就是幸福的時刻。同時也教導孩子們「手心向下」，親手種植稻米、芋頭、番茄和小黃瓜等作物，感受種植不易，粒粒皆辛苦，所以不能浪費食物。此外，書院也必須跟上時代變化和發揮創意，以種植鳳梨，生產鳳梨酥、鳳梨乾、鳳梨醬油、鳳梨酵素、鳳梨豆瓣醬等鳳梨製品，創造經濟價值來自力更生。所有產品提倡不添加任何化學添加劑和保證退貨機制，除了建立品牌特色和口碑，目的更在於教導孩子們誠實的面對這片土地和面對自己。

院長自詡為身上背負無數家庭的「蝸牛媽媽」，除了教導孩子們品德和課業之外，也很鼓勵他們多多參與活動，像是登上百岳等等。近年離婚率越來越高，導致單親家庭的現象加劇，「蝸牛媽媽」祈願之後有更多的同質同心的團體和機構能合作，幫助這些欠缺照顧的孩子建立一個屬於自己的溫暖家庭。感謝「蝸牛媽媽」的故事讓文藻USR看到了不同的需要和挑戰。

善導是我們這學期新的場域合作好夥伴。小螺絲釘們每個禮拜六上午藉由科技的幫忙進行遠距英文教學陪伴善導孩子們希望能夠提升他們學習的熱情。

Teacher’s Community: S.D.S. Academy and Snail Mom’s Story

By Winnie Hsieh (edited by Peter Chou)

Recently (110/12/24 from 12:00 noon to 14:00 p.m. at 12/F, Zhishan Building), WZU-WHC invited the Director Chan of 善導書院 (S.D.S. Academy) to the teachers' community to share her ideas and thoughts on the creation of the S.D.S. Academy and the Happy Cafeteria to inspire new ideas on the future of USR.

S.D.S. has been established for 24 years, specializing in the care of local children, the elderly and unemployed women. It was founded by the director's personal hard work and experience to help and lead a group of single mothers, and has successfully transformed many unruly children by teaching them in a child-friendly way. These children have become the core of the S.D.S. Academy, and in 1997, the S.D.S. Academy was registered as a public service organization.

The director began by sharing her personal family background to explain the causes and plight of social problems. For example, domestic violence, single motherhood, child support, lack of employment skills, intergenerational parenting, middle-aged unemployment, etc. are all everyday problems of the lower strata of society. In spite of this, the residents still insisted on not receiving social security benefits, fearing that they would become "habitual" and would have no motivation to get rid of their fate, so they actively sought to become self-sufficient.

The director also cited some children as examples: living in a dilapidated environment, being abused for a long time, living under distorted values, all these difficult experiences are not something that ordinary people can experience. In some cases, children who are not yet in school are faced with loss of parents, domestic violence, sexual abuse, drug abuse by elders, crime, dementia or severe mental disorders. In these cases, the institution takes turns to take care of them instead of their families, assisting them in medical treatment and schooling, guiding them back to the warmth of their families and reducing the chance of going astray.

S.D.S. Academy actively provides a wide range of education for the children, such as remedial teaching, character education, life education, agricultural education, family and life education and community service. The first thing the children do when they enter the academy is to learn to cook, to be independent, and to be responsible for themselves. In the academy, children learn to recite the Discipleship Rules and to pray for thanks before meals. They learn to thank their parents for raising them, their teachers for teaching them, and those who have helped them.

The dean was worried about what would happen to S.D.S. Academy twenty years later, especially after she was gone. The purpose is to make everyone in that space feel that the "present moment" is the moment of happiness. The children are also taught to grow rice, taro, tomatoes and cucumbers with their own hands, so that they can feel that it is not easy to grow and that every grain is hard work, so they cannot waste food. In addition, the school must also keep up with the changes of the times and give full play to creativity. For example, growing pineapples and producing pineapple products such as pineapple cakes, dried pineapples, pineapple soy sauce, pineapple enzyme, pineapple bean paste, etc. to create economic value for self-reliance. All products are made without any chemical additives and have a guaranteed return mechanism. In addition to building brand identity and reputation, the aim is to teach children to face the land and themselves with honesty.

In addition to teaching the children moral and academic subjects, she also encourages them to participate in more activities such as climbing up the mountain. In recent years, the divorce rate is increasing and the phenomenon of single-parent families is worsening. These “Snail Moms” hopes that more groups and organizations will cooperate to help these uncared children build a warm family of their own. Thanks to the story of "Snail Moms", Wenzao USR has seen the different future needs and challenges.

S.D.S Academy is our new field partner for this semester. Students from WZU-WHC teach English remotely to children at the academy every Saturday morning in hopes of boosting their enthusiasm for learning.