英文摘要 |
Taiwan, as a late comer to capitalism, has become a newly-industrialized country after 40 years of economic development. However, the skill formation behind the economic miracle is under-researched, with vocational industrial education particularly so. Some studies explain skill formation of Taiwan and other East Asian newly-industrialized countries from the perspective of developmental state and argue that human resources policy is a direct response to economic development. However, this argument does not pay enough attention to course curriculum development and it also neglects the roles of the US and Germany in shaping Taiwan's vocational industrial education. Therefore, this paper argues that the perspective of “dependent development” can better explain the skill formation system in Taiwan. This not only helps us revise the state-centered view that has been used to explain the cultivation of East Asia's human capital, but also highlights the bias of methodological nationalism lurking in historical and comparative institutional analysis (varieties of capitalism/ skill formation) based on advanced industrial democracies. |