Ministry of Education to amend internationalization program to emphasize 'fostering national consciousness'
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/08/18
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(File photo from Taipei City Government)
The original plan was introduced in a White Paper introduced by the MOE in 2011, which aimed to internationalize primary and secondary education in Taiwan over the course of a decade and divided into two five-year stages. While most of the plan’s key goals have been met, MOE officials state that “fostering national consciousness” has unfortunately not been made a priority by many educators.
To address this, the MOE’s amended internationalization plan calls for Taiwan’s schools to be regularly evaluated on their performance in cultivating national identity. The MOE will design new evaluation criteria as an indicator for schools to reference in designing their curricula.
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