英文摘要 |
Over the past 30 years, Taiwan's curriculum in Civics and Society has undergone three important changes. In the mid-1990s, the Civics and Society curriculum clearly changed from attaching importance to moral discipline under the authoritarian system to the knowledge-based social sciences. Entering 2000, the Civics and Society curriculum further emphasized knowledge-based social sciences but at the same time also added the concepts of human rights and civic participation to the curriculum. Recently, important changes in the 108 Course Guidelines are, on the one hand, the unprecedented inclusion of question-based curriculum and, on the other hand, the emphasis on the core goal of cultivating democratic citizens rather than imparting social scientific knowledge. This study attempts to analyze how high school Civics and Society teachers' sense-making and responses to these changes in curriculum policy. Through in-depth interviews, this study found three factors affecting how teachers interpret and respond to the new curriculum policies, namely teachers' habitus for constructing knowledge, teachers' responsibilities for helping students pass entrance examinations, and the professional identities of Civics and Society teachers. |