英文摘要 |
Out of concern for international understanding and peace education, this study set out to investigate how Taiwan was depicted in Spain’s textbooks. Social studies textbooks in junior and senior high schools were selected. The analysis framework was adopted from IMPACT-SE and UNESCO, with some viewpoints from post-colonialism. It was found that Taiwan, though once a colony of Spain, was not treated as such in the textbooks. To be more precise, Taiwan seemed to only exist after 1949 as the Republic of KMT and was juxtaposed with Communist China, and the democratization process since the mid-70s was not mentioned. Secondly, given the aforementioned inadequacies, the contents of the textbooks were incomplete, if not incorrect. Thirdly, conflicts and wars were reported in such a way that it failed to acknowledge the significance of peace, let alone peace education. Finally, some implications were proposed for the future research and textbook writings based on the findings. |