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After the end of World War II in 1945, China governed Taiwan again. Since then, Taiwan agriculture’s education transformed from “Japanese Type” into “Chinese Type”. U.S.-Aid in the 1950s greatly helped Taiwan agriculture’s education and established 25 exemplary vocational schools of agriculture. This study aims to investigate the postwar continuity and transition of Japanese colonial period of Kaginorin Gakko(嘉義農林學校) in order to comprehend the connection between postwar Taiwan vocational schools of agriculture and the changes of times.
After the War, Kaginorin Gakko(嘉義農林學校) became a five-year junior college till 1965 and before then it was a vocational school. At the very beginning, Kaginorin Gakko(嘉義農林學校) was titled as “Taiwan Chiayi Vocational School of Agriculture” and then changed to “Taiwan Chiayi Vocational High School of Agriculture” and “Taiwan Chiayi Exemplary Vocational High School of Agriculture”. Although Kaginorin Gakko(嘉義農林學校) was a secondary school of agriculture before and after the war before1965, its curriculum, teachers and students had gone through great changes under the differences of the times which led to the phenomenon of “disrupture”. Among these changes, the February 28 incident had the greatest impact on the transition of teacher’s structures of Kaginorin Gakko(嘉義農林學校). U.S.-Aid had supported Kaginorin Gakko(嘉義農林學校) for 15 years since 1950, it not only affected Chiayi University’s design of curriculum, way of practical training and facility of teaching but also provided courses for teachers to do the further learning which gave the graduates positive effects upon their future. However, there are still some “continuities” comes from Japanese Time, for instance, the spirits of Kano(嘉農精神) “truly do the right things”, the campus, the facility, the practical farm, certain part of the curriculum and so on.
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