This issue aims to present education as a social relationship linking Taiwan and beyond its borders, foregrounding the pedagogical challenges and possibilities arising from multilingualism, mobility, migration, and uneven expectations. As Taiwan has become an increasingly prominent educational destination for international students, aspirations for overseas education intersect with local institutional regimes, language hierarchies, and historically layered educational cultures. Alongside transnational mobility, this collection situates pedagogy within Taiwan’s plural educational landscape, where Indigenous education systems and epistemologies coexist, often unevenly, co-aligned with mainstream Han Taiwanese schooling and internationalised curricula. Indigenous education in Taiwan, shaped by histories of settler colonialism, language loss, and cultural revitalisation, offers critical perspectives on how knowledge, language, and authority are negotiated within educational institutions. Through teaching and learning reflections, this issue reframes multicultural teaching and educational pathways in Taiwan as lived, contested, and relational processes, shaped by the intersecting plurality of educational voices and settings.
Image credit: The Main Library of National Taiwan University. Taken by Nga Shi Yeu.
Reworlding Childhood: Parenting in an Age of Educational Anxiety Written by Kristina Göransson
The Social Health Paradox of Taiwan’s Indigenous Educational “Privileges” Written by Omorose Aighewi
Learning Otherwise: Indigenous Experimental Education and Plural Pathways in Taiwan
Written by Tuyuq Rabay (Yueh-Chou Ho)
More than Education, Not Quite Foreign: The Politics of Taiwan’s Overseas Chinese Students Written by Chiao-Yuan Jo Ko
Bridging the Gap: How Walking, Healing, and Gardening Connect Universities with Migrants
Written by Tzu-Chi Ou