Teacher Quality Vs. Social Justice: Issue and Status Quo in Taiwan

Teacher quality is taken as the strategy to social justice in the trend of standard-based teacher education. In the accountability of the interpretation of social justice is about student learning opportunity that let every student can learn depends on teacher quality. Especially, all students in every school can receive teaching from qualified, knowledgeable, and capability teachers that means school success. The assumption of the relationship of teacher quality and student learning is worth to investigate. Why the relationship is about social justice, what kind of social justice in the assumption, and how about the context in Taiwan. Is its meaning in Taiwan the same in the concept of standard-based teacher education with globalization? Therefore, this paper would like to find the relationship of teacher quality and social justice. Second, this paper would like to understand the meaning or perception of social justice in the case. Third, this paper would like to analyze the relationship of teacher quality with social justice in Taiwan context. Finally, this paper provides some findings and suggestions.