國際教育要往外看臺灣理解國際，也要往內看國際理 解臺灣。本文所倡導的國際教育是往內看的那一面，即重新思考臺灣 意象在國際理解下的己他位置，故著手檢視臺灣意象的舊問題與發展 新面貌。舊意象的省思透過文化他者理論作為基礎，回顧臺灣眼中的 他者與他者眼中的臺灣。在帝國主義主僕關係與國家分類等級地位的 影響下，臺灣在國際理解下處於文化他者的不利位置，為了改善國際 雙邊理解，重構臺灣新意象具有相當程度的國際教育意義。新意象建 構可採用臺灣研究取徑，臺灣文化話語建構作為推展國家形象的重要 符號。國際學術他者眼中的臺灣係不同於中國的多元文化社會，擁有 高度發展的科技、經濟、言論自由與人權，傳媒卻在移民全球化中複 製負面意象。因此，本文根據認同競爭理論提出一個重構臺灣新意象 的可能方案，建議從「傳統文化、現代藝術、流行文化」重構臺灣文 化話語，作為補充國際教育的另一個面向。

In order to understand international education one has to look outwards, and then to look back inwards. This paper suggests an inward look to reconstruct a new Taiwan image for international education. It addresses that multicultural education is not only rooted in local contexts but also intertwined with global contexts. This paper has two purposes: first, it aims to critically examine Taiwan’s image within the international relations by studying the factors of marginalization, the others, and stigmatization; second, it attempts to explore the possibility of a reconstruction of the new Taiwan image by referring to the academic approach of Taiwan’s studies. Finally, it reviews the image of Taiwan in the eyes of the others and the image of the others in Taiwan’s eyes: Taiwan as a multicultural society of speech freedom and high technology, and Taiwan as a country of negative in terms of culture aspect. To reconstruct Taiwan, the strategy of deconstruction and reconstruction of the old and the new image of Taiwan, respectively, should be adopted. A national and international students’ discourse on Taiwan’s image based on the Competitive Identity Theory is suggested.