Research On The Degree Of Customization Of Textbooks In Primary And Middle Schools In Taiwan

A high-quality textbook can benefit both the teachers and the students quite a lot,that is why how to develop a high-quality textbook may become the significant thing that we ought to pay highly attention to. Textbook censorship is the last step in producing the textbooks, which highly in relation to the quality of the textbooks. So do certain research about this makes a large number of sense. Although Taiwan province has opened up the textbook censorship of Middle Schools and Primary Schools since 2002, it is quite different from that in mainland due to its special history,social environment, politics and economy and so on.This essay mainly focuses on the textbook censorship of Middle Schools and Primary Schools in Taiwan province, and emphasis on the basic elements of the censorship, the features and the judgment of the advantages and disadvantages. First of all, it introduces about the history and the development of the textbook censorship from the year 1949 till now. Then, it tells about the basic elements of Taiwan’ s textbook censorship, which includes the censorship subject, the censorship object, the accordance, the censor method, the censor standards, the censor steps, the censor possibility results and the interaction between the editors and the censors, and it also analyzes its special features as well. What come next are the forming reasons of the textbook censorship and the judgment of the advantages and disadvantages. After some research, we can find out that Taiwan’s textbook censorship has those advantages: the interaction between the editors and the censors, the opened up information of the censorship. What’s more, the ordinary people are also allowed to join in, and the teachers can also take part in the censorship as well as the selection of the textbooks, which is quite beneficial for the teacher’s professional growth. On the other side, its disadvantages are like these things below: no pre-teaching experiment,not clear enough censorship standards, not censors by the whole period of primary years or by years of segment. After that, this essay also analyzes some deriving problems of the textbook censorship in Taiwan.This essay holds an opinion that the textbook censorship in Taiwan is worth us learning about, while it also gives us some kind of warnings. According to the discussion of the features and the judgment of the advantages and disadvantages, here come some experience and lesson for us to pay attention to: 1.the censorshipstandards should very clear. 2. The information of the censorship ought to open to the public. 3. We should also ask for more suggestions from the public. 4. Strengthen the interaction between the editors and the censors. 5. Add more teachers into the censor members. The reform of education need a quite stabled direction and we should also be quite well prepared before doing. What really need us to pay attention to is that we should change properly according the physical truth when we learn from other,change without thinking is not admiring.