Linyuan Elementary School, Linyuan District, Kaohsiung City—In Search of the Taste of Memories

Using food culture as a vehicle and aesthetic education as the core, this program connects interdisciplinary learning and guides students to perceive beauty, understand culture, and practice sustainability in their daily lives.
Education is not just about teaching children how to cook a dish; more importantly, it's about accompanying them to rediscover life, the land, and culture through aesthetic experiences, making art an important medium connecting people, the environment, and society.
Every home-cooked dish carries a story of life, family emotions, and local culture. However, under the influence of the fast pace of modern life, the prevalence of dining out, and the gradual decrease in intergenerational interaction, children's connection with their hometown culture is becoming increasingly weak, and many precious food memories, life wisdom, and local culture are gradually disappearing. Therefore, this course, themed "In Search of the Taste of Memory," starts from the familiar family dining table and uses real-life scenarios as a learning starting point to guide students to rediscover the humanistic value, cultural connotations, and connection to the land behind the taste of their hometown.
The course uses food culture as a medium for aesthetic learning, integrating learning fields such as art, language, health, integrated activities and technology. Through learning activities such as family interviews, local exploration, intergenerational co-learning, hands-on cooking, art creation, video documentation, AI cultural collection and result curation, the course guides students to experience observation, feeling, exploration, creation, sharing and reflection, constructing a complete and authentic interdisciplinary learning experience.
Aesthetic appreciation is not merely the presentation of artworks, but also the ability to understand life, interpret culture, and respond to the world. Students begin by observing the color, texture, and shape of ingredients, feeling the temperature and aroma of dishes, listening to the life stories of elders, and then reinterpreting local culture through artistic creation, video storytelling, and digital technology. Gradually, they cultivate aesthetic perception, cultural understanding, creative thinking, communication and expression, and interdisciplinary integration abilities, allowing art to enter life and making life an important venue for learning aesthetic appreciation.
This course uses "perception, exploration, transformation, and action" as an interdisciplinary aesthetic learning process. Students start from daily life, cultivating aesthetic awareness through observation and experience; they deepen cultural exploration through interviews, field research, and intergenerational exchanges; then, through artistic creation, video storytelling, and digital archiving, they transform cultural experiences into works with aesthetic appeal and public value; finally, through curating the results, public sharing, and community exchanges, they give back their learning outcomes to the local community, practicing cultural inheritance and sustainability.
In this learning process, students progress from "investigators" who discover problems, to "recorders" who preserve culture, then to "creators" who transform culture, and finally to "sustainability activists" who are willing to share, pass on, and put their knowledge into action. Through perception, exploration, transformation, and action, they gradually build cultural identity, aesthetic literacy, and sustainable practice capabilities, allowing art to truly become an important force for understanding the world, connecting with local communities, and responding to society.
We believe that aesthetic education is not about raising children who can produce artwork, but about cultivating citizens who can observe life, understand culture, care for the land, and use creativity to respond to the real world and practice sustainable action. When art returns to life, culture can be understood; when aesthetics become action, education can truly change the future of people and places.