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Conference Paper: To Borrow or to Mix? A Cultural Approach to Observing Taiwanese Higher Education
Title | To Borrow or to Mix? A Cultural Approach to Observing Taiwanese Higher Education |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University. |
Citation | The 14th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform (HER2017), Hiroshima, Japan, 26-28 September 2017, p. 35 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper observes higher education development in Taiwan, a society with values and traditions from multiple
origins. While most East Asian societies have achieved highly in socio-economic development, their historical roots
and development approaches have led to some clear diversity in higher education development. The Taiwanese higher
education system has intentionally been designed to follow the Western model, the values and traditions embraced in
the society still play a significant role in its development. The society has undergone social, political, economic and
cultural changes in over the past two centuries. In its higher education development, there are observable aspects of
the policies and practices that echo the models from the West. Underneath the surface, however, various unseen facets
reflect its deeply rooted values and heritages of the society.
While Western models have long been dominant in Taiwanese higher education, there has been a constant tension
result fundamentally from the striking differences in value orientation between traditional understandings of higher
education and the great influences from the West. Although such incompatibility of values seems to be widespread
across East Asian higher education systems, there have been few studies from a cultural perspective to understand
the phenomenon. This paper attempts to investigate the development of higher education system in Taiwan through
a cultural lens. In particular, it examines the interplay of various forces in the existing system that has received much
influence from the West, the cultural values derived from the Chinese origin, and the Japanese colonial and postcolonial
regimes.
Adopting a case study research approach, in-depth semi-structured interviews with selected administrators and
academics from two elite universities in Taiwan were conducted. The empirical data reflect the interstates of collision
and assimilation between the East Asian and Western elements. This paper intends to explore emerging themes
derived from data analysis concerning the fundamentals that play essential roles in the process of higher education
development in Taiwan. It aims to illuminate further understanding of how Taiwanese higher education has well
undertaken such changes through the exhausting process of borrowing and mixing. By so doing, it hopes to shed light
on some key issues in the development of higher education across East Asian societies. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/247032 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lin, W | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, R | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-18T08:21:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-18T08:21:11Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 14th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform (HER2017), Hiroshima, Japan, 26-28 September 2017, p. 35 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/247032 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper observes higher education development in Taiwan, a society with values and traditions from multiple origins. While most East Asian societies have achieved highly in socio-economic development, their historical roots and development approaches have led to some clear diversity in higher education development. The Taiwanese higher education system has intentionally been designed to follow the Western model, the values and traditions embraced in the society still play a significant role in its development. The society has undergone social, political, economic and cultural changes in over the past two centuries. In its higher education development, there are observable aspects of the policies and practices that echo the models from the West. Underneath the surface, however, various unseen facets reflect its deeply rooted values and heritages of the society. While Western models have long been dominant in Taiwanese higher education, there has been a constant tension result fundamentally from the striking differences in value orientation between traditional understandings of higher education and the great influences from the West. Although such incompatibility of values seems to be widespread across East Asian higher education systems, there have been few studies from a cultural perspective to understand the phenomenon. This paper attempts to investigate the development of higher education system in Taiwan through a cultural lens. In particular, it examines the interplay of various forces in the existing system that has received much influence from the West, the cultural values derived from the Chinese origin, and the Japanese colonial and postcolonial regimes. Adopting a case study research approach, in-depth semi-structured interviews with selected administrators and academics from two elite universities in Taiwan were conducted. The empirical data reflect the interstates of collision and assimilation between the East Asian and Western elements. This paper intends to explore emerging themes derived from data analysis concerning the fundamentals that play essential roles in the process of higher education development in Taiwan. It aims to illuminate further understanding of how Taiwanese higher education has well undertaken such changes through the exhausting process of borrowing and mixing. By so doing, it hopes to shed light on some key issues in the development of higher education across East Asian societies. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Programme & Book of Abstracts of the 14th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform (HER2017) | - |
dc.title | To Borrow or to Mix? A Cultural Approach to Observing Taiwanese Higher Education | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yang, R: yangrui@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yang, R=rp00980 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 279545 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 35 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 35 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hiroshima, Japan | - |