From the Teachings of Confucius to Western Influences: How Adult Education is Shaped in Taiwan

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Author(s): Viktor Wang (California State University, San Bernardino, USA)and Lesley Farmer (California State University, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 16
Source title: Vocational Education Technologies and Advances in Adult Learning: New Concepts
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0252-6.ch016

Keywords: Adult Learning / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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This article reports the results of a study designed to determine whether the teachings of Confucius (liberal and behavioral teaching approaches) or Western teaching approaches (humanistic, progressive, radical and analytic teaching approaches) shaped adult education in Taiwan. Thirty-nine randomly selected adult educators from three premium universities in Taipei responded to a survey about their teaching practices. The same adult educators were also interviewed to cross-validate the quantitative findings. Study results indicated that, while the Taiwanese adult educators employed Western teaching approaches to some extent, they clung dearly to Confucian methods of instruction, a finding that was consistent with reports in the literature of adult education in Taiwan.

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