| 英文摘要 |
This study examines the“8-Year Integrated Jewelry and Metalwork¬ing Program”pioneered by the New Taipei City Government since the 2020 academic year. In response to the long-standing fragmentation of Taiwan’s technical and vocational education system and the persistent gap between school training and industry needs, this program establish¬es a vertically integrated talent cultivation pathway spanning junior high school, senior vocational high school, and higher technical education. Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this research analyzes how the program operationalizes the three developmental stages defined in the Technical and Vocational Education Act—career exploration, career preparation, and career continuation—through coordinated collabora¬tion among government agencies, schools, industry partners, and profes¬sional associations. The findings indicate that the program successfully constructs a co¬herent“one-stop”talent development model by integrating mechanisms such as apprenticeship-based instruction, industry mentor co-teaching, participation in national and international competitions, and pre-college credit transfer arrangements. These mechanisms effectively enhance stu¬dents’practical skills, strengthen professional identity formation, and re¬duce the structural disconnect between education and industry practice. Nevertheless, the case also reveals ongoing structural challenges, par¬ticularly the misalignment between practice-oriented talent cultivation and academically oriented admission systems. This study positions the program as an alternative paradigm of the“Specialized Industry Program”stipulated in Article 16 of the Technical and Vocational Education Act. Based on the case analysis, policy implica¬tions are proposed, including diversifying admission pathways, institu¬tionalizing cross-stage collaboration mechanisms, and strengthening the government’s intermediary and coordinating role in industry–academia partnerships, in order to more fully realize the pragmatic and applied ethos of technical and vocational education. |