Queens’ College, Silver Street, Cambridge, UK CB3 9ET
Online published on 13 February, 2014.
This article highlights the major transformation of citizenship education in Taiwan. The development of this school subject in Taiwan can be divided into three time periods- Authoritarian Period (1950–1970), Transformational Period (1970–1990) and Education Reform Period (1990- the present). The trajectory of the Taiwanese citizenship curriculum can be regarded as a historic process from authority to democracy based on the embedded ideologies. The intervention of politics in citizenship education diminishes after 1980s and this subject gradually proceeds to a more value-neutral subject.
