Hung, Yung-Shan

Research FellowResearch Center for Curriculum and Instruction

ireneh1220@mail.naer.edu.tw

Biography

Researcher Hung, Yungshan is a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of Curriculum and Instruction at National Taipei University of Education, with a main academic focus on arts and aesthetic education, curriculum and instruction studies, and teacher professional development. She has served as an elementary music teacher and principal for 19 years, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. Since 2009, she has been working at the National Academy for Educational Research in the Curriculum and Instruction Research Center, primarily engaged in foundational research on curriculum research and development work for the 12-year national education curriculum guidelines. In 2015, she took on the role of Director of the Curriculum and Instruction Research Center, continuing to plan and implement the amendment work for various fields/subjects within the 12-year national education curriculum guidelines. In addition, she collaborates with colleagues to develop curriculum implementation support resources and establish research partnerships with schools, as well as with the Quality School Improvement Project(QSIP) team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, jointly exploring important curricular issues and practical approaches. Continuing from 2019, after stepping down from administrative duties, she persisted in the research on the implementation of the new curriculum in localities and school classrooms. The main research themes included SRL/ SDL, competency-oriented teaching materials and methods, global competence and deep learning, central and local curriculum collaboration governance, and the 2030 curriculumStudy, among others.In 2021, she concurrently served as the Executive Secretary of the Promotion Office for the 12-Year Basic Education Curriculum at the Ministry of Education, planning and analyzing mechanisms and issues related to cross-system collaboration on the curriculum. Alongside, in line with digital learning enhancement programs, she chaired the development and empowerment project for the Digital Teaching Guidelines for Primary and Secondary Schools 1.0 and 2.0 issued by the Ministry of Education, proposing strategies, tools, and cases for digital technology and generative AI to assist in teaching and subject learning.

Since 2015, Hung Yungshan has been the head of the Asia-Pacific Office of Aesthetics Education Research established by the National Academy for Educational Research under the funded by the Ministry of Education. She has been involved in developing discourses and experimental curricula on aesthetics education, exploring modules and assessments of aesthetic learning, as well as international cases and policy impact evaluations, providing feedback and practical references for policies. From 2019 to the present, she has been elected as the World Councilor of Asian region of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), dedicated to research on international arts and aesthetics education, practical experiences, policy analysis, and research collaboration exchanges.