New Taipei City Expands Arts Education to 67 Schools with Foundation Support
Translated from Chinese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.
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- New Taipei City is expanding its arts education program to 67 schools in the 2025 academic year, supported by a NT$2 million grant from the Chang Yung-Fa Foundation.
- The initiative, which has won national awards for six consecutive years, offers diverse courses like pottery, calligraphy, and performing arts, integrating artists into classrooms for collaborative teaching.
- This program aims to foster creativity, aesthetic literacy, and expression by connecting students with local culture and international exchange through hands-on art creation.
New Taipei City is bolstering its commitment to arts education with an expanded "Arts Deep Cultivation Teaching Plan" set to reach 67 schools in the 2025 academic year. The initiative receives a NT$2 million boost from the Chang Yung-Fa Foundation, supporting a wide array of courses including pottery, calligraphy, sculpture, hand drums, clay modeling, indigo dyeing, and performing arts.
New Taipei City highly values arts education and has led the nation in the number of awards for six consecutive years in the Ministry of Education's "Arts Education Contribution Award," demonstrating the results of deep cultivation in aesthetic education.
This program emphasizes a collaborative teaching model, bringing artists into schools to work alongside educators. Students engage in hands-on creation, cross-disciplinary exploration, and learn about local culture, fostering creativity, aesthetic literacy, and expressive abilities. New Taipei City's Education Bureau highlighted the city's consistent success, having won the most awards in the Ministry of Education's "Arts Education Contribution Award" for six consecutive years, underscoring its dedication to aesthetic education.
Since its inception in 2019, the "Arts Deep Cultivation" plan has connected artists, cultural groups, museums, and teachers to develop art curricula tailored to local characteristics and student needs. The city aims to create an artistic learning environment where "every school has a specialty and every student has a stage" through ongoing public-private partnerships.
Every child is a natural creator. Art education can embrace different traits and inspire inner potential, serving as an important way for children to understand the world and express themselves.
The Chang Yung-Fa Foundation views art education as a vital pathway for children to understand the world and express themselves, recognizing the innate creativity in every child. The foundation's support aims to broaden aesthetic horizons for schools in underserved areas and foster professional exchange between artists and educators, integrating art into children's daily lives. Examples of the program's impact include Zhubei High School's pottery program, which blends local ecology and history, and Zhongshan Experimental Elementary School's "Drama x Music x Civics" curriculum, which combines Western and local music, AI-assisted composition, and student-led theatrical productions on civic issues.
We hope to help schools in remote areas and those with different resource conditions broaden their aesthetic horizons through the Arts Deep Cultivation Teaching Plan, and also promote professional exchange between artists and the education field, allowing art to enter children's daily lives.
DistantNews Editorial
Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.
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