G5 How We Organize Ourselves: Social System

The central idea for our current unit is "Governments and institutions are built to manage and ensure society's stability." With regards to this central idea, one of the questions we discussed in class is "Should the government try to get more foreigners to move to Taiwan? Why? Why not?" This is a timeless question. In the past, however, it was not in regards to "Taiwan" or any specific country, but to the idea of sharing any region where people lived successfully with a second group of people would suddenly show up in that same area. "Are these people a threat?" "Will they help us?" "How will they help us?" These are all questions that follow naturally. We made a list of reasons concerning both sides of this question and wrote an essay as a class on the projector screen. Finally, each student had to write their own opinion on this topic. These are some of the essays that students wrote.

此單元的中心概念為：建置政府與機構是為了確保社會穩定。在這個概念下，五年級的學生討論了『臺灣政府應該開放更多外國人來臺定居嗎？為什麼？』其實，這也是個橫跨時空的大哉問。

在過去，不只限於台灣或其他國家，任何在不同地區發展出安康生活的人民，都會在其他族群抵達後開始思索：『這些初乍來到的人會是我們的威脅嗎？』『這些人會幫助我們嗎？會怎麼幫助我們？』等種種疑問，而這些疑慮，都是再自然不過了的。

課堂上，老師投影出『政府是否該開放更多外國人來臺』的正反論述，最後，每位學生也針對這主題寫下小論文。

學生擔心若開放太多外國人來臺居住，會限縮本國人能使用的資源。