Hwawei Ko

Hwawei Ko (; 8 November 1952 – 18/19 November 2020) was a Taiwanese pedagogue and professor who specialised in the promotion of reading education in Taiwan. She was the first director of the Learning and Teaching Institute of the Faculty of Letters at the National Central University and was professor of both the Department of Psychology of the National Chengchi University and at the National Chung Cheng University's Department of Psychology. Ko was a visiting scholar of the Harvard Institute for Educational Management and the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Biography Ko was born on 8 November 1952, and she was brought up a Christian. She had one younger brother. In 2001, she was appointed the first director of the Learning and Teaching Institute of the Faculty of Letters at the National Central University. Ko would also be the director of the Teacher Training Center, then director of the General Teaching Center and the director of the Publishing Center.

She was also director of the National School Teachers' Seminar in the Taiwan Province, was professor of the Department of Psychology of the National Chengchi University, and served as a professor of the National Chung Cheng University's Department of Psychology. She was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Institute for Educational Management and a visiting scholar of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. At the time of Ko's death, she had two unfinished books. Ko died between 18 and 19 November 2020.