Teach for Taiwan (KP10)
Teach For Taiwan is closing Taiwan’s education gap by training young teachers for remote schools. We talk to founder Anting Liu about the organization, education for remote areas and some ideas on education direction.
Teach For Taiwan is closing Taiwan’s education gap by training young teachers for remote schools. We talk to founder Anting Liu about the organization, education for remote areas and some ideas on education direction.
In this special episode, we reflect on the 228 Massacre, from the isolated event in Dadaocheng that set off the entire incident, to the psychological effects of the trauma on individuals and on the nation as a whole.
We discuss Aboriginal and indigenous civilizations in Taiwan with Tony Coolidge, the son of a US military serviceman in Taiwan and an Atayal aboriginal Taiwanese, and the founder of the NGO ATAYAL.
Crystal Boys, a classic novel about Taiwan’s gay subculture in the 1970s, is also about family, authority and freedom. We talk to director 曹瑞原, actors 莫子儀 and 陸一龍, and the author 白先勇 himself about an upcoming stage adaptation.
We talk to Victoria Linchong, who is the director of the documentary “Almost Home: Taiwan” in which she takes us on a family visit to Taiwan that turns out to be much more about history, identity and making these big questions personal.