A comparative study on “national discourse” of junior high school civics textbooks in Taiwan and Mainland China
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Lin, Mung-Ying
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to compare the similarities and differences of national discourse in civics textbooks, the stage of junior high school in Taiwan and Mainland China . And we also attempt to analyze the influential factors. The research materials are Taiwan Social Study textbooks of Jen-Lin and China’s Political Thought textbooks. The study method of this research includes content analysis and comparative method. We set five main subject categories to analyze textbook contents by " national significance", " national identity", " national composition", " internal relations" and " external relations".
The results of these studies are as follow：
1.both textbooks in Taiwan and Mainland China are influenced by political factors.
2.both textbooks in Taiwan and Mainland China are lack with developing the speculative ability.
3.the national discourses of China’s textbook are more concrete and emphasize on patriotic comparatively.
4.China’s textbooks are deeply affected by ideology and can reflect the national policy.
5.Taiwan’s textbooks emphasize on the general democratic system and procedure.
6.Taiwan’s textbooks pick a fuzzy way to describe the contents of national identity and national composition.
According to the results of these studies, several recommendations for the textbooks of Taiwan and Mainland China are given as follows：
1. reform the national significance that people first.
2. train the students to develop the speculative ability and provide the pluralistic conception of state ;
3. construct a reasonable civic education;
4. China’s textbooks should avoid being used as a tool to teach all kinds of ideologies ;
5. Taiwan’s textbooks should face up to the national reality.
Subjects
兩岸公民教育
civic education in Taiwan and Mainland China
civics textbook
the state
national discourse
Type
thesis
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