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Fang, Ya-Hui; Huang, Shen-Tzay – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This paper examines an account of a practitioner-initiated transformation of workplace-based social relationship within a grassroots adult education institution. This tripartite relationship among adult students, staff and teachers, abbreviated as AST, is a major driving force for activities and missionary functioning of the XinZhuang Community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Teacher Student Relationship
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Lo, William Yat Wai – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This article primarily aims to investigate the effects of decentralization on educational autonomy in Taiwan through historical and documentary analysis. To draw an analytical framework, it begins with a brief examination of the concept of autonomy. This is followed by an examination of how decentralization has influenced the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
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Lo, William Yat Wai; Gu, Ja Oek – International Journal of Educational Management, 2008
Purpose: The article aims to use the globalization theory and the implications of democratization for social policy to analyze the school governance reforms in Taiwan and South Korea. Design/methodology/approach: The article describes the main features of decentralization policy in the school sectors in the two societies with a historical review…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Based Management, Global Approach, Governance
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Chiang, Min-Hsun – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
Teacher educators may have different views on what constitutes knowledge base for teacher education. Most of them, however, would agree that field experiences are indispensable for shaping and maintaining high-quality teachers. Unlike teacher training courses in the UK and US, fieldwork components are not always an option in Taiwan. This study,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Field Experience Programs
Hsu, Jeng-yih Tim – Online Submission, 2004
Teachers are given too much power in a reading classroom. We choose the texts, design the course syllabuses, and put up a written exam after another written exam. However, we cannot stop our students from becoming book haters as soon as they leave our classroom. By implementing literature circles, we teachers might return the power back to our…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Ling-Chuan, Wu – Teacher Development, 2004
As Taiwan's state apparatus began to democratise, the question arose as to how teachers' practices might inform the wider process of contextual changes, i.e. societal, economic and political changes. This article explores this issue through an examination of how teachers seek to alter the relations of authority by arguing for independent teacher…
Descriptors: Unions, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Social Change