A Study on Diversification of Education and its Consolidation in Taiwan: A Critical Reflection of Ongoing Education Reform

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This research aimed to conduct a critical analysis on education reform in democratized Taiwan, paying special attention to diversification of education. The issues discussed here were (1)the never-ending dispute over national curriculum guidelines and school textbooks, rivalry between 'uniformity' of Chinese national identity and 'diversity' of Taiwanese national identity; (2) possibilities and limitations of education of ethnic minorities (the indigenous peoples); (3) differentiation among universities and colleges competing with each other for decreasing students. Generally, transition from uniformity to diversity is undoubtedly a trend of Taiwan's education reform since the 1990s. However, detailed observation tells us that the multidimensional phenomenon of diversification of education faces difficulty of consolidation in some cases.