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positive education for the future
An Example of a
Character-Based School
Culture Project
Dr Chi-Ming (Angela) Lee illustrates a CBSC indicator
framework with ten principles for implementing and
evaluating school moral and character education and its
application t Taiwanese primary and secondary schools
Moral and character education had been
a mandatory subject in Taiwanese schools
for several decades. However, since 2004 a
moral and character education course was
no longer part of formal curricula due to
educational reforms. The ongoing policy of
moral and character education is the “Moral
and Character Education Improvement
Program” (MCEIP), which stresses characterbased school culture (called CBSC), intended
to balance Eastern and Western, traditional
and modern cultures. The Taiwanese Ministry
of Education funded me through a grant to
develop a systematic and feasible indicator
framework for implementing and evaluating
the moral and character education of schools
in 2007, as I am the drafter of the MCEIP. I
therefore have the honour of introducing a
CBSC project I conducted for two years to
show an example of the indicator framework
applied in a junior high school (here called
School X), to British and overseas readers.
Ten dimensions of indicator
framework
The indicator framework for implementing
and evaluating school moral and character
education of primary and secondary schools
contained ten respective and complementary
dimensions, including characteristics of
school, administrative leadership, teacher
professionalism, resources integration,
formal curriculum, informal curriculum,
hidden curriculum, student progress, school
atmosphere and sustainable development
(as seen in Table 1).
Table 1 the indicator framework
Ten dimensions
characteristics of school
administrative leadership
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Indicators
Indicator 1 schools with comprehensive
educational goals and well thought out
project for moral and character education
Indicator 2 schools with administrators’
moral leadership