Curriculum Decision-Making of Administrators in Taiwan Vocational High Schools

Curriculum is an important task of educational administrator for it should include all of the procedures of development. Presently, the policy inclination of vocational education is to delegate the rights of curriculum, while the Ministry of Education (MOE) should merely be responsible for stipulating curriculum, review plan, and provide resources in the future. If school administrator is willing to dwarf itself as merely the follower of without the capability to design and willingness to make change, the objective to achieve school-based is simply impossible. In 2002, school-based has begun to be experimented in five vocational high schools. As of such, there would be less difficulty in school-based for the administrators of these five schools, and there are some schools which find it strenuous to set up mechanism. As a matter of course, factors behind the sign should deserve our attention. The study is based on the administrators of these five vocational high schools as its targets, while interviews are employed to appreciate the ideas of curriculum decision-making of administrators after the reform. As for the implementation of the curriculum decision-making strategy, it is as well the focus of this research, and the study should end with its interview results and literature comparison.