Part VI >
Essays on Human Rights
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Discrepancies in Campus Human Rights
Promotion and Need for Rights in Family
Education: A Report on the Status of
Human Rights Education in Taiwan’s
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Primary and Secondary Education
Through a literature review, questionnaire survey,
also found among teachers. Other contributing
held between November 2021 and June 2022,
Education tends to emphasize quantity rather
visits, a walk through, and focus group interviews
we gathered opinions from school administrative
staff members, teachers and students from
schools below senior high (vocational) schools,
experts and scholars, and civilian groups. In
collaboration with the National Academy for
Educational Research (NAER) we systemically
reviewed the content and implementation,
than quality, a lack of effective oversight of the
implementation of laws and regulations related
to human rights protection on campus. This is
aggravated by a lack of competence among
the persons who implement the policy and
inadequate allocation of labor and funds.
learning environment, and teaching process and
In general, although schoolteachers have a
The research team found that human rights
rights, they need better administrative support to
Taiwan and in schools at all levels. Many schools,
Additionally, although the guidance system
rights educational activities in different ways and
well, contents should aim at developing the
human rights education on campus, in class,
of students, and different training courses should
mechanism and an overall policy roadmap has
course instructors and designers, educational
schools in human rights education promotion. A
should be differentiated). Currently, “respect”
methods of Taiwan’s human rights education.
largely improved understanding of human
education has overall become important across
receive in-service training and develop courses.
teachers, and students actively engage in human
at all levels for human rights education works
endeavor to work out the spirit and concepts of
awareness of human rights for a broader range
and in daily life. However, the lack of a planning
be designed for different groups of students (e.g.,
led to differing outcomes in regions and among
administrative staff, and textbook writers
competence gap in human rights education was
and “tolerance” are the two main principles
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factors are: evaluation by the Ministry of
The contents are excerpted from the “Status Review of Human Rights Education in Taiwan’s Primary and Secondary Education
Project”. This project was planned and implemented by the NHRC in collaboration with the National Academy for Educational
Research in reference to the UN’s Human Rights Education Development and Instruction Framework and in consideration of the status
and schedule of Taiwan in proposing a review plan suitable for Taiwan and making recommendations for the preliminary planning of
Taiwan’s human rights education policy. The project period was from November 19, 2021 to June 30, 2022.
National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report