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Taipei Times
Date: Aug 11, 2018
By: Rachel Lin, Shih Hsiao-kuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Ministry of Education’s meeting on the 12-year national education curriculum
Minister of Education Yeh Jiunn-rong, right, on Saturday last week inspects documents during a review of curriculum guidelines for natural sciences in the 12-year national education program. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Education
is to convene at the National Academy for Educational Research (NAER) today to review the draft guidelines for social science subjects, with Minister Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮) chairing the panel.
The ministry has been rushing to finish its review of the guidelines by the end of the month, which is necessary for the guidelines to take effect at the start of the schoolyear next year. Over the summer, it has increased the frequency of review sessions, which were previously held on Sundays.
Draft guidelines for social science subjects propose to reduce the amount of rote memorization at high schools and shift the focus of history textbooks from a Han ethnicity-centered history to the history of Taiwan over the past 500 years.
The draft curriculum proposes to turn the three subdivisions in history textbooks — History of Taiwan, History of China and World History — into three separate courses worth two credits each, named “Taiwan and related history,” “China and East Asia” and “Taiwan and the World.” [FULL STORY]
