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To Teach or Not Teach Controversial Public Issues in Taiwan?
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Hung, Yu-Han – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
This study is aimed at exploring how teachers make curricular-instructional decisions regarding teaching contemporary controversial public issues in Taiwan (e.g., national identity, sovereignty, and ethnic issues). Using a case study design, this study documents how six social studies teachers make curricular decisions about whether to teach…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Knowledge Level, Teacher Background, Family Influence
A Long-Term Experiment to Investigate the Relationships between High School Students' Perceptions of Mobile Learning and Peer Interaction and Higher-Order Thinking Tendencies
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lai, Chiu-Lin; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Chu, Hui-Chun; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
In this study, a one-year program was conducted to investigate the relationships between students' perceptions of mobile learning and their tendencies of peer interaction and higher-order thinking in issue-based mobile learning activities. To achieve the research objective, a survey consisting of eight scales, namely, usability, continuity,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship
What Can We Learn from Taiwanese Teachers about Teaching Controversial Public Issues?
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Hung, Yu-Han – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
This study explores how history teachers in Taiwan make curricular decisions while engaging controversial public issues. The main political controversies discussed in Taiwanese society center on the relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. This study documents how four social studies teachers formulate their curricular…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Professional Identity, Self Concept
What Aspects of Mathematical Literacy Should Teachers Focus on from the Student's Point of View?
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Hsieh, Feng-Jui; Wang, Ting-Ying – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This study employed latent class cluster analysis to explore students' perceptions of what aspects of mathematical literacy, composed of mathematics competencies and attitudes, teachers should focus on. The sample included 1,219 Taiwanese senior high school students and 59 mathematics teachers. Three profiles were identified for mathematics…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Skills, Competence, High School Students
A Case Study of Increasing Vocational High School Teachers Practices in Designing Interdisciplinary Use of Scientific Inquiry in Curriculum Design
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Chang, Yu-Liang; Wu, Huan-Hung – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The primary objective of this study was to determine how experience in learning to teach scientific inquiry using a practical approach affected teacher's attitudes, evaluations of use of inquiry and their actual design of inquiry based instruction. The methodology included the use an approach incorporating inquiry methodology combined with a…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Secondary School Science
Taiwan High School Biology Teachers' Acceptance and Understanding of Evolution and the Nature of Science
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Chen, Li-Hua – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Evolution is the cornerstone of biological sciences, but anti-evolution teaching has become a global controversy since the introduction of evolutionary ideas into the United States high school science curricula in 1914. It is suggested that teachers' attitude toward and acceptance of the theory of evolution will influence their effect of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Science Teachers