Taipei Municipal Jingmei Junior High School—"Invisible Wounds, Visible Courage"—A Transboundary Journey of Human Rights and Aesthetic Appreciation

This course uses the picture book "The Boy with the Floral Cloth" as its core text. Starting with the story of the protagonist, Valentin, who suffers ridicule, exclusion, and violent conflict due to differences in gender temperament and interests, the course guides students to think about questions such as "Who decides what is normal?" and "Does difference represent wrong?" It gradually explores issues such as gender stereotypes, school bullying, human rights, and social oppression.

The curriculum adopts an interdisciplinary and integrated design, with "understanding – feeling – expressing – acting" as the learning axis. First, the Chinese language class guides students to understand the characters' situations and emotions through picture book reading and text discussion. Next, in the performing arts class, sound clips from the movie "Detention" serve as a guide, allowing students to experience discrimination, bullying, and oppression at the individual and national levels through sound theater creation, in different contexts such as family, school, power relations, the White Terror, cyberspace, and war. Then, the visual arts class combines color psychology, fabric creation, and mini floral T-shirt design to transform emotions, care, and self-identity into visual expression. Finally, the counseling class leads students to integrate their learning process, reflect on whether they may be victims, bystanders, perpetrators, or supporters in interpersonal interactions, and transform understanding into civic practice of respecting differences and daring to speak out through an International Day of Denim flash mob.

This course uses aesthetic elements such as color, texture, composition, sound, and emotion from aesthetic education as a medium, combined with SEL (Social Emotional Learning), human rights education, and gender equality education. It aims to cultivate students' ability to appreciate and create art, understand differences and respect diversity through artistic experiences, learn to listen to voices that are easily overlooked, and transform empathy into concrete actions, so as to become learners with aesthetic literacy, social concern, and civic responsibility.