Editing Normal school (section)

=== Taiwan ===
[[Image:Taiwan.ntnu.auditorium.altonthompson.jpg|thumb|230px|A lecture hall dating from the [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese colonial era]] at the [[National Taiwan Normal University]] in [[Taipei]]]]
In [[Taiwan]], three universities served as national normal universities historically. Located in [[National Taiwan Normal University|Taipei]] ([[National Taiwan Normal University]]), [[National Changhua University of Education|Changhua]] ([[National Changhua University of Education]]), and [[National Kaohsiung Normal University|Kaohsiung]] ([[National Kaohsiung Normal University]]), the schools primarily cultivates [[secondary school]] teachers and also trains teachers for [[preschool]], [[Primary school|elementary school]], [[special education]] and other fields. These schools' missions have expanded since to make them ''de facto'' comprehensive research or [[liberal arts]] universities.

NCUE did not adopt the term "normal university" because its predecessor was named Taiwan Provincial College of Education, and it was unrelated to the subsequent trend of renaming education universities.

Ten Taiwanese normal schools ({{lang-zh|c=師範學院|p=shīfàn xuéyuàn}}, abbreviated 師院; shīyuàn, "normal colleges") were established [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|under Japanese rule]] and [[Retrocession Day|at the end of World War 2]], serving for primary school teacher's education. These were promoted as teachers' colleges and later granted university status in 2000s. It is distinguished under the name "Education University" from the "Normal University". Some of these were merged with comprehensive university, such as [[National Hualien University of Education]], which were merged with [[National Dong Hwa University]] in 2007. Some of them were merged with professional university, such as Taipei Physical Education College was merged with Taipei Municipal University of Education to form the [[University of Taipei]] in 2013.