Shu-huei Yen

Indigenous Education in Taiwan: Teacher Beliefs, Knowledge, and Practices Shu-huei Yen

Indigenous students are the least empowered studentsin Taiwan. They struggle with the crises of poverty, discrimination, identity conflict, low achievement, and high drop-out rates. Those problems imposeradically different educational, social, andpsychological demands on Indigenous students. Asolution to the continuing learning problems ofIndigenes might be to improve classroom instruction. This book provides a holistic description andinterpretation of effective teaching by documentingthe beliefs, knowledge, and practices of exemplaryeducators in various cultural contexts in Taiwan. Such specific and detailed profiles can help teachereducator and school administration direct the changesnecessary to improve teachers? practices to achievecultural diversity. Moreover, this book advancesalternative perspectives on the nature anddevelopment of expertise in teaching by comparingexemplary practices for minority students in othercountries. Such cross-cultural exchange andunderstanding could ultimately illuminate widerdimensions of effective practices that expand currenttheories of culturally diverse teaching.