Taiwan Church News 3296 Edition April 27 - May 3, 2015 Church Ministry Civil Groups Want High School Curriculum Guidelines Based On Taiwan Subjectivity Reported by Chiu Kuo-rong On April 25, dozens of civil groups representatives went to Ministry ofEducation protesting the Chinese ideology and colonialism arbitrarily inserted into the high school curriculum guidelines for the Chinese language and social sciences. They asked a curriculum guideline based on Taiwan subjectivity should be implemented instead. Mr Kuo Yan-lin, a PCT member and spokesperson for Alliance for CurriculumGuidelines based on Taiwan Subjectivity, expressed to the media three appeals: First, radical pro-unification (with China) scholars should not be assigned as the commissioners in the High School Curriculum Guidelines Committee; Second, according to The Freedom of Government Information Law, the commissioners and meeting minutes of High School Curriculum Guidelines Committee should be disclosed to the public; Third, instead of the arbitrarily and illegally scheduled release of the high school curriculum guidelines before March 2016, a suitable timing should be after June 2016 when the decision of a new administration could become legitimate. Kuo publicly criticized the inappropriate nomination of three radical pro-unification scholars by Ma Ying-jeou administration into the High School Curriculum Guidelines Committee: Wang Hsiao-po, a chairman of the One China organization; Chang Ya-chung, a member of Chinese Integration Association; Sun Ro-yi, a member in Cross-Strait Peace & Development Union. Kuo furiously challenged the legitimacy of such biased designation of so manypro-unification scholars into the High School Curriculum Guidelines Committee, since so many scholars equipped with professional training and Taiwan subjectivity consciousness in the field of Taiwan history were eligible. As the pro-China curriculum guidelines would not only make the teachers confused and throw the teaching of Taiwan history into a chaos, Kuo also questioned whether Ma administration wanted to hypnotize the Taiwan consciousness of current young students before implementing his dream of unification with China? Translated by Peter Wolfe |