On Local Education in Taiwan

This article is a product of over a month's academic investigation made by the author in Taiwan. It recalls Taiwan's local education in terms of its history of development, its educational objective, content aid its evolutionary process of teaching models. Emphasis in the article is put on the discussion around the matter of local education over the last more than ten years, and the tendency of political forces, especially the forces of independence, which are trying to take advantage of local education to cultivate the Taiwan consciousness and model the so-called new Taiwanese.