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Our Efforts and Transformation
To prevent the recurrence of historical mistakes
speech. Additionally, some teachers developed
effectively through the efforts of pioneers, the
the teaching toolbox into social studies and
and to popularize liberty and democracy more
NHRC openly recruited Miss Wang Chungchuan, a teacher from Sincheng Junior High
School in Hualien, and Miss Huang Chia-shan,
a teacher from Minsheng Junior High School in
Chiayi, to co-develop a human rights teaching
aid based on the true history of the period of
authoritarian rule in the hope of helping students
explore what illegal acts committed by the state
look like, and to teach them how to approach
tensions between “national security” and “human
rights protection” with an inquisitive mind.
During the production of “A Story of Island
Untitled: Building Memories of Tomorrow”,
all participants experienced a playgroup
environment of human rights education. First, the
two seed teachers participating in the project
used a prototype of the teaching toolbox in class
so that they could modify it based on the response
of the students. Once the design and production
were completed and the toolbox was available for
general use, teachers from schools at all levels
could apply to the NHRC to take part either onsite
or online in the preparation of course material.
At the end of each semester, teachers
exchanged their teaching experience in the
learning group of the “NHRC-Seed TeacherClassroom.”
Ten schools borrowed the teaching toolbox.
Some followed the lesson plan provided in their
class, while some developed different teaching
activities, such as adding discussions related to
democracy and the rule of law to guide students
to think about the relation between State power
and issues such as information security, national
security, misinformation, and freedom of
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interdisciplinary courses by incorporating
performing arts and invited students to act out
the roles in the toolbox in the form of a drama.
Ms. Lee Yi-fang, the former director of student
affairs at National Tainan Girls’ Senior High
School, began to take part in the “Human Rights
Education Resources Center’s” integration of
human rights education into the curriculum
in 2019. She participated in the board game
development for human rights education and the
training of teachers for human rights courses.
She shared her reflections after trying the “A
Story of Island Untitled” teaching aid.
In addition to the elaborate build and rigorous
production, this teaching aid is highly accepted
by students.
Through three different roles: government,
revolutionaries, and citizens, the teaching aid
enables students to engage in critical thinking
and put themselves in someone else’s shoes and
realize that the liberty and democracy enjoyed
by Taiwan today never came as naturally as
sunlight and water do.
Ms. Lee also recommended that the NHRC
integrate the medium- and long-term promotion
of human rights in future toolkits and provide
this for the reference of all schools. In this way
teachers will be helped to plan courses relating
to human rights issues such that real human
rights education might take place on campus.
In 2021 the Center for Human Rights Education
Resources produced a board game based on
the novel “The Steelyard” by Loa Ho, so that
students can understand the colonial persecution
carried out during the Japanese colonization of
Taiwan. In 2022, the Center published the “No-