Dance Education in the School System of Taiwan: The Reform and Future Prospect
摘要：
This research paper highlights significant topics underlying the theme of reform in dance education in Taiwan’s under the implementation of Guidelines for a Nine-Year Joint Curricula Plan for Elementary and Junior High Schools made in 1998 (Huang, Lin and Chang, 2010). The first section outlines the background to changes in dance from a physical education subject in Taiwan’s school system to the performing arts, and its relationship to the study’s research questions. Section two contains an analysis of the old and new forms of dance education in schools and limitations of the reform system. In the third section, there is a discussion of expectations for dance education in the Education Reform movement of Taiwan. Section four looks at current difficulties of dance education in the school system under the plan of the Education Reform. The fifth section discusses the implications of dance education in the country. The sixth section contains a discussion of mixed opinions on the effects of globalisation on dance education and the decreasing percentage of students entering successively higher levels of dance education. Through the analyses, this study aims to review the impact of reform efforts for dance education in Taiwan's school system and discuss its future development.
