Teacher Preparation in Taiwan: A Sociological and Transnational Perspective (Emerald Studies in Teacher Preparation in National and Global Contexts)

Teacher Preparation in Taiwan offers an analytically rich account of how teacher education has been shaped through the transnational circulation of ideas, institutions, and modes of governance. Taiwan represents both a geographically understudied and a national context in which to examine the historical origins and contemporary dynamics of teacher preparation and education policy.The book demonstrates that Taiwan’s teacher education system has been constituted through sustained engagements with imperial, national, and global forces rather than developing in isolation. Drawing on archival and policy analysis, the chapters trace the evolution of teacher preparation from early missionary schooling and Japanese colonial normal education, through Kuomintang authoritarian rule and post-democratisation reform, to contemporary developments shaped by globally circulating agendas such as social-emotional learning and alternative pathways into teaching.Across these periods, teacher education emer