【中文摘要】中国传统庙宇，是儒家社会道德教育中很重要的一环，也是小区居民信仰的中心。而为适应社会现代化，寺庙除具有传统信仰外，更应走入小区，关心居民之生活及教育需求，才能发挥寺庙社会教化功能。近年来，不少寺庙从事小区教育活动，颇有成效。基于国内相关学术研究不足，希望对寺庙在推展小区教育活动上有所了解，乃提出「台南县民间寺庙办理小区教育活动之现况及推展途径之研究」其研究目的是为了解民间寺庙办理小区教育活动之现况、民间寺庙办理小区教育活动之推展途径及民间寺庙是否因其不同之背景因素而在办理小区教育活动上有所差异，最后提供研究结果作为民间寺庙办理小区教育活动之参考。
　　 为达上述目的，本研究采用问卷调查与访谈法进行研究。经由前述研究方法所得结果及发现，归纳研究结论如下：
　　 一、台南县寺庙办理之小区教育活动内容多元，包含教育、民俗、艺文、体能、节庆等活动，于小区内亦从事公益慈善活动及关心小区问题。
　　 二、寺庙办理小区教育活动所遭遇到的困难为经费不足，专业人力不足、承办人员不足及小区居民参与率不高等。
　　 三、寺庙办理小区教育活动之途径，可与其它民间团体或政府机构合办活动，或寻求社会资源，以解决寺庙资源之不足。
　　 四、寺庙与小区居民关系大致良好友善，且热心支持寺庙活动，办理成效颇获居民认同。
　　 五、寺庙办理小区教育活动之情况依其背景，即寺庙成立时间、活动空间、组织成员、小区类型及主事者教育程度等变项而有所差异。
　　 六、寺庙大都配合庙宇庆典节日办理小区教育活动，达到寺庙信仰、教化功能，并能扩大倡导效果。
　　 七、寺庙办理小区教育活动之推展途径为组织规划小组、并从事小区需求评估、进行活动宣扬与营销、运用小区资源与扩大跟外界的交流及召开成果检讨与扩大影响。
　　 八、寺庙主事者与管理委员会只要有心，具有理念与共识，愿意投入心力于小区，是影响寺庙办理小区教育的关键所在。
　　 九、寺庙办理小区教育活动，亟需小区教育等专业人才，予以协助策划与推动。
　　 十、政府宜多鼓励寺庙办理有意义之小区教育活动，并予辅导及表扬，以宣扬寺庙之文化价值。
 
【英文摘要】The community activities of education held by civil temples in Tainan County at present and the methods of development ABSTRACT
　　 The Chinese traditional temples are one of the very important elements in social moral education of the Confucianists and the belief center for the community inhabitants as well. In order to adopt themselves to the social modernization, temples should have close contact with communities, consider the life of inhabitants and needs of education so as to develop the social educational function of temples besides the traditional beliefs. In recent years, many temples hold community activities of education and get good effect in return. Prompted by the shortage of the relevant academic research in Taiwan, and hope to have some understanding of the community activities of education developed by temples, the study of “　　 The community activities of education held by civil temples in Tainan County at present and the development methods” is put into action. The goal is to understand the community activities of education held by civil temples, the developing methods of community activities of education held by civil temples and whether there is any difference in holding these activities because of unlike backgrounds. In the end, the result of the study is supplied as references for civil temples in holding community activities of education.
　　 For achieving the goal mentioned above, this study is put into action by using　　 Questionnaire Survey and Interview Research Method. According to the result found through the research methods, the conclusion is induced as follows.
　　 1. The community activities of education held by temples should be comprehensive, including education, folk customs, arts, physical activities and festivals, etc. Temples should do the nonprofit activities of charity and consider the community problems.
　　 2. The problems that the temples face in holding community activities of education are the shortage of budget, professional manpower, people undertaking the activity and the low attendance rate of community inhabitants.
3. When holding community activities of education, temples can hold these with other civil organizations or the government institution and seek for social resources so as to solve the shortage of the resources.
　　 4. The relationship between temples and the community inhabitants is often good. Community inhabitants support the activities held by temples enthusiastically. Also, the activities are often appreciated.
　　 5. The situation for temples to hold community activities of education is often different according to the established time, the activity space, the members of the organization, the type of the community and the educational level of the people who undertake the activity.
　　 6.Most temples hold the community activities of education according to their festivals so as to achieve the function of belief, education and the amplification of promoting effects.
　　 7.The developing methods for temples to hold community activities of education are organizing the planning group, evaluating the need of the community, promoting the activity, using the community resources, amplifying the contact with the outside, holding a self-criticism meeting of the result and amplifying the effect.