| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 政治學系 === 99 === This study was to explore the trajectory of the twelve-year compulsory education policy from the perspective of historical institutionalism. According to the theory, one has to examine the changing political, economic and social contexts and to identify the historical legacies, critical junctures and path dependence point of a policy in order to understand the evolution of institutional change.
The Critical Junctures of the evolution of the twelve-year compulsory education policy include the starting of the Nine-year Compulsory Education policy in 1968, the extension of compulsory education to vocational education in 1983, the release of the General Consultation Report for Education Reform in 1996, and the abolishment of high school entrance examination in 2001.
There are seven research findings concluded in this study: the impacts of private high schools on the development of post-secondary education, the impacts of the previous policy on the evolution of the compulsory education policy, the idea of credentialism affects the development of the twelve-year compulsory education policy significantly, vocational students are increasingly motivated by credentialism, the influences of leadership on the evolution of the policy should be emphasized, and one important factor to be considered in the future is the low fertility rate.
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