Humanistic Education Foundation

The Humanistic Education Foundation (財團法人人本教育文教基金會) is a Taiwan-based non-governmental organization centered on education reform, established shortly after the lifting of martial law in Taiwan. Its name derives from its core idea that education should be people-centered. According to its own account, it was formally established in 1989 and works to combine the strength of families, schools, and society to assist education authorities in eliminating educational abuses and to promote people-centered education. Its stated work includes publishing (including the monthly Humanistic Education Journal and teaching materials), running forest primary school and children's camps, offering growth classes for parents, teachers, and youth, operating an education complaint hotline, conducting legislative lobbying, and founding the Forest Primary School.

The Humanistic Education Foundation is a Taiwan-based non-governmental organization centered on education reform, established shortly after the lifting of martial law in Taiwan; its name comes from its core idea that education should be people-centered. According to the foundation's own account, it was formally established in 1989 and has since worked to combine the strength of families, schools, and society to assist education authorities in eliminating educational abuses and to jointly promote people-centered education. Its stated work spans promoting its ideas (including founding a publishing house that publishes the monthly Humanistic Education Journal, audiobooks, Mathematics Thinking teaching materials, and Humanistic Library books; holding forest primary school and forest education children's camps and parent-child camp series; and running growth classes for parents, teachers, and youth), promoting reform (an education normalization complaint hotline, legislative lobbying, campus support systems, and public hearings or press conferences on education reform issues), and realizing its ideals (founding the Forest Primary School, which broke through restrictions on private schooling and became an indicator of ideal education inside and outside the system; and assisting disadvantaged students through the Sanchong Youth Base and the Fulcrum Project).

Advocates a people-centered view of education, holding that education should enable a person to become independent and autonomous.

• Humanistic Education Journal (monthly)

• Mathematics Thinking teaching materials

• Humanistic Library books

• Audiobooks

1. 1人本教育基金會 | 人本教育基金會hef.org.tw
2. 2關於基金會 | 人本教育基金會hef.org.tw
3. 3Humanistic Education Foundationwikidata.org
4. 4人本教育文教基金會zh.wikipedia.org