In the advisory report issued in 1998 by the Executive Yuan's Education Reform Committee, there is no sign of the words "integrated curriculum." However, the committee members agreed that existing subject divisions were too narrow, and that children mostly studied fragmentary, disjointed knowledge completely divorced from their life experience. Thus "course integration" was an obvious orientation for change.
翻遍民國八十七年行政院教改會的總諮議報告書，裡面並沒有出現「九年一貫」這樣的字眼，不過教改委員都有共識，目前學校分科太細，學生學到的往往是支離破碎、和生活經驗完全脫離的知識，因此「課程整合」的調整方向已呼之欲出。