Project SEED - School Visit

Kaohsiung Municipal San Min Junior High school

2022.11.16

The purpose of Project SEED is to conduct a series of collaborative research projects on civic literacy and civic efficacy as mediated by issues relevant to social justice, education equity, and diversity. The study goals, through onsite community-based action research, panel discussions, classroom participations, workshops, and weekend cultural tours, are as follows:

1. Investigate how the Social Participation Education component of Taiwan’s Twelve-year Curriculum and how the competencies of social justice, civic consciousness, and multiculturalism are integrated with content of Language, Social Science, and Science. 
2. Seek to identify factors that influence development of civic knowledge and skills, and attitude towards civic literacy and efficacy. 
3. Explore how various Taiwanese ethnic groups (e.g., Hoklo, Hakka, mainland Chinese, Indigenous Taiwanese) perceive social justice, education equity, and diversity, and how these perceptions influence feelings of civic literacy and civic efficacy. 
4. Examine how Taiwanese teachers cultivate social justice, education equity, and diversity through the Social Participation Education curriculum, and how U.S educators also pursue such aims.