Overcoming the imbalance in the supply and demand of professionals in the marine industry: Professional development of marine education in Taiwan

摘要

Citizens in Taiwan have been observed to continually have insufficient knowledge about their country’s ocean due to the political issues with China and the Martial Law Order issued in 1949. Not many people are willing to be involved in the marine industry, thus resulting in an imbalance in the demand and supply of high-caliber professionals in these sectors. To overcome this imbalance, teachers need to play important roles in commencing marine related education. This paper?focuses on themarine?related education of teachers to?find out how the central government together with the local governments and universities/schools promote Marine Education Policies. We also used the information resources and test statistics to find out if there is any improvement in teacher professional development. The results show?a systemic improvement based on the fact that the government promotes in-service education on teachers’ professional development in?marine education?following the Ministry of Education issuance of a White Paper on Marine Education Policies in 2007.