Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement
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.jpg) The Ministry of Education building surrounded | |||
| Date | 2015-05-24 to 2015-08-06 | ||
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| Location | Taipei, Taiwan | ||
| Caused by | 2012 changes in high school (zh) | ||
| Goals | Withdraw curriculum guidelines adjustment | ||
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| Status | Adjustment withdrawn on 31 May 2016[1] | ||
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| Traditional Chinese | 反黑箱課綱運動 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 反黑箱课纲运动 | ||||||||||
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The Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement was a 2015 Taiwanese student protest, against certain proposed senior high school curriculum changes. "Black box" is a reference to the students' concerns about the lack of transparency of the proposed changes. On 23 July 2015, the protesters stormed the Ministry of Education.
Protested changes
[edit]The proposed changes to the high school history curriculum were to
- social studies, including the mention in textbooks of Japanese war crimes during their occupation of Taiwan[3] and the acknowledgement of comfort women sex-slavery in Asia;
- Chinese literature selections.<refname=ttimes1 />
Students also protested what they felt was too much rote memorization through Buxiban cramming in the educational system (part of the buke practice of intensive extracurricular preparation for high school admissions tests), as well as perceived corruption and illegal connections between politicians.[4] Taiwanese voters have demanded that opposing political parties, e.g. KMT versus DPP, act with integrity so as to put a check on each other.[5]
Outcome
[edit]The student protest movement was successful. On 22 May 2016, Minister of Education Pan Wen-Chung announced that the curriculum changes would not be implemented. He also stated that certain proposed to changes to national high school curriculum would be delayed until 2020.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Guideline changes to be undone - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei. 22 May 2016. p. 1. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
The Ministry of Education is to take swift action to abolish contentious social studies and Chinese literature curriculum guideline changes
- ^ "赴陸挨轟 反課綱學生：「中國」可以有不一樣的新解". Archived from the original on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
- ^ In Taiwanese historiography debates, supporters of Taiwan independence and a Taiwanese national consciousness prefer to downplay Japanese war crimes and emphasize aspects of the White Terror that the Kuomintang inflicted in Taiwan
- ^ "反課綱學生夜宿教育部 林思伶今早探視-風傳媒". 23 July 2015.
- ^ "Donovan's Deep Dives: A different way of analyzing recent election results in Taiwan". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. 20 September 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
- ^ "Guideline changes to be undone - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei. 22 May 2016. p. 1. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung said that changes in social studies and Chinese literature would be delayed until 2020 to allow for an amendment... "The alteration of the curriculum guidelines has been deemed unnecessary by society and the unjustified staffing of the curriculum review committee has sparked widespread criticism," Pan said.
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