For quite a long time, the Ministry of Education has regarded primary and junior high school curriculum guidelines as an administrative rule. As a result, its legal procedure was not presented concretely in legal documents. In 2013, to carry out 12-year national education, Senior High School Education Act was announced. It clearly stated that schools shall establish a curriculum review committee. In 2016, Senior High School Education Act and Primary and Junior High School Act were amended, which made it possible to regulate in the law the curriculum review organization of primary and junior high schools. Yet, this also caused some controversies in actual practice. On the other hand, whether curriculum guides should be categorized into legal order, administrative regulation or general disposition, they may have different regulatory functions and different legal procedures to follow. This research project aims at exploring under the legal framework and social condition what kind of regulatory functions curriculum guidelines should have and what appropriate legal process they should follow. This project will conduct document analysis, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to examine the appropriateness of the legal process of curriculum guidelines and its impact. It will also analyze how different legal status may impact the regulatory functions of curriculum guidelines and what problems it may cause. Furthermore, this project will propose concrete suggestions for the legal procedure and legal status of curriculum guidelines in Taiwan.
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