Taiwan Church News 2725, 17 through 23 May 2004 reports on some interesting ideas on education in Aboriginal communiites here in Taiwan. I never heard of this stuff before? Is is good, useful?
Reported by: Gu Hao-jan.
Translated and Rewritten by
David Alexander
Professor Robert W. Heber, a Canadian expert on
Aboriginal education,
recently
led a set of seminars in Taiwan on the theme of
establishing of Aboriginal
Self Education alongside mainstream systems. He calls
for Aborigines to be
educated in a dual track fashion and encourages
non-aborigines to accept the
value of Aboriginal education in the same ways that
Aborigines have been
inculcated into the mainstream. He believes that a
touch of the Aboriginal
would help all to overcome the Western values of
individualism.