Personal and Social Education and Teacher Development in Hong Kong

This paper looks at the developmental needs of teachers in relation to facilitating the personal and social development of students. It goes on to describe a module, 'Personal and Social Education', offered to all pre-service teachers in the Hong Kong Institute of Education which aims at equipping trainee teachers to carry out the guidance role of a teacher in the context of Hong Kong, particularly in the role of a class teacher. It concludes with the results of a survey seeking the views of these trainees on the module they had undertaken.     

Personal and Social Education and Teacher Development in Hong Kong

This paper looks at the developmental needs of teachers in relation to facilitating the personal and social development of students. It goes on to describe a module, ‘Personal and Social Education’, offered to all pre-service teachers in the Hong Kong Institute of Education which aims at equipping trainee teachers to carry out the guidance role of a teacher in the context of Hong Kong, particularly in the role of a class teacher. It concludes with the results of a survey seeking the views of these trainees on the module they had undertaken.     

Competing Contexts for Developing Personal and Social Education in Hong Kong

Personal and social education has become an important area of development in education in Hong Kong. Given that much of the literature on personal and social education is Anglo-American or European, what is the influence on the largely Chinese settings in Hong Kong? This paper will examine some of the debates of what constitutes personal and social education. The significance of competing contexts in the development of personal and social education will be analysed in detail. Comparisons will be made between Western and Chinese (especially Confucian) views on personal and social education. Attempts will be made to come up with a notion of personal and social education which is suitable for the Hong Kong context.     

Exploring School Improvement in Hong Kong Secondary Schools

Scholars have increasingly sought to understand how the process of school improvement differs among schools operating in different school levels, conditions, and contexts. Using Rosenholtz's (1985 Rosenholtz, S. 1985. Effective schools: Interpreting the evidence. American Journal of Education, 93: 352–388. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) conception of “moving” and “stuck” schools as a framework for thinking about school improvement, this study examines the learning outcomes of 39 Hong Kong secondary schools over a 3-year period. We examine whether features of leadership and school capacity differed with respect to these learning outcomes within the sample of moving and stuck schools. This research in Hong Kong has identified several factors that appear to synergistically contribute to differences in patterns of improvement in learning across different subjects in both moving and stuck schools. These factors include resource management of principals and school capacity in terms of professional learning community; workload of teachers; alignment, coherence, and structure; and resource capacity. This study extends the research on leadership and capacity building as a means of school improvement, in the process elaborating on their impact within a non-Western society.     

香港的学制改革与香港中学文凭考试

随着第一届香港中学文凭考试顺利完成,香港的"三三四"新学制改革在2012年进入了一个新阶段。经过多年的讨论、咨询、研究和筹备,它在三年制高中终于得以落实,香港学生终于可以获得更完整、更全面的高中教育。香港中学文凭考试的设计,配合了新学制和新课程的发展,更满足了全体学生和社会中不同利益相关者的需要。同时,在科目设计上增加了应用学习课程,使一些对传统学科兴趣不大的学生可以通过香港中学文凭获得、达致某行业技能的资历。对于选修传统学术科目的学生来说,校本评核避免了以往"一试定生死"的局面。而水平参照成绩汇报方式,能够让大学或雇主等不同利益相关者更清楚地理解学生的实际能力。中学文凭考试的新标准为教育界和社会整体普遍认同。     

Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education in Catholic Secondary Schools: Stakeholders' Views

During 1999–2000, the writer carried out a survey of six randomly selected Catholic secondary schools in England to examine the attitudes of stakeholder groups towards Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education. Questionnaires were completed by six governors, 12 parents, 139 pupils, 12 teachers and six school leaders, providing insight into perceptions of the purposes of selected components of Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education, viz. Citizenship Education, Moral Education and Sex Education. Drawing on Hornsby-Smith's (1996) definition of contrasting perspectives, which he characterises as 'Open' and 'Closed' Catholicism, the enquiry located attitudes of the stakeholder groups along a continuum of values. While there was evidence of consensus across stakeholder groups within each component, differences in attitudes were also identified. The results indicated that governors and school leaders adopt more 'Open' attitudes towards Citizenship Education compared with pupils, teachers and parents; that school leaders adopt more 'Open' attitudes towards Moral Education compared with pupils; and that pupils and teachers adopt more 'Open' attitudes towards Sex Education compared with governors. One conclusion is that these results demonstrate that, when traditional religious values are challenged by rapid social and technological changes, stakeholder groups in faith schools are faced with added tensions to resolve.     

浅谈中小学美术教育

美术教育对于培养德、智、体、美、劳全面的高素质的人才具有不可替代的作用和地位,是素质教育的重要组成部分。但是我国的中小学的美术教育仍然是基础教育的一个薄弱的环节,也导致了现在中小学生的综合素质和创造力的发展受到严重的抑制。教师对中小学美术教育的深刻体会,得出了一些对如今中小学美术教育现状问题的个人认识并提出相应的改善建议。     

Research into the Social Purposes of Schooling: Personal and Social Education in Secondary Schools in England and Wales

Though the term 'PSE' is used in most secondary schools, it refers to a wide variety of programmes and practices. This is in part inevitable but the situation has been exacerbated by PSE's diverse origins and lack of clarity regarding its relationship to the National Curriculum. Having discussed the expectations of PSE in relation to social issues and the 'anxieties, sensitivities and controversy' that underlie this, the writer goes on to describe a piece of research which sought to survey a number of aspects of PSE nationally. The picture of existing practice, issues and problems of PSE in secondary schools is an illuminating one and provides a clear picture of current practice.     

香港高中学生的社会资本对高等教育需求的影响分析

本文从社会资本理论的视角,以香港高中生作为实证研究对象,将学生家庭的社会资本区分为学生个人和父母两个独立的分析单位,探讨学生如何运用其个人及父母的社会资本创造人力资本。研究发现香港高中生的公开考试成绩和其个人的社会资本是影响其升学、择校和择业的显著影响因素,高中生的家庭背景变量对这三类选择行为的影响则不显著。     

试析香港学校公民教育的若干特点

香港社会公民教育的协程,理论和政策框架及其演变,不仅此是世界公民教育发展史上的一个颇具特色的组成部分,而且也为祖大陆正在进行的教育改革,提供了近距离的,可资借鉴的参照.     

试析香港学校公民教育的若干特点

香港社会公民教育的历程、理论和政策框架及其演变，不仅是世界公民教育发展史上的一个颇具特色的组成部分，而且也为祖国大陆正在进行的教育改革，提供了近距离的、可资借鉴的参照。     

Curriculum Leadership and Management in Secondary Schools: A Hong Kong case study

Relatively little is known about how and by whom curriculum leadership and management occur inside secondary schools, especially in Asian contexts. This article aims to analyse curriculum decision-making in two academically effective secondary schools in Hong Kong. It employs qualitative methods to capture the contributions made by various school personnel, and in particular the principals, to curriculum leadership and management. Data for the two schools show that whilst neither of the principals plays a significant role in curriculum monitoring and innovation, the vice-principal (male), the senior teachers and teachers in one school were perceived to place more emphasis on curriculum monitoring and innovation than their counterparts in the other school. Whilst teachers in both schools shared high expectations for students' academic achievement, one subtle difference between them related to the pursuit of academic excellence. In one school, students did not exert much pressure on their teachers whereas in the other school, teachers felt they had to fulfil students' demands for good lesson preparation and take account of students' opinions of their teaching.     

香港中学文凭考试的公平诉求

香港兼具高考功能的中学文凭考试综合运用公开考试及校本评核,力求评价方式的客观化与标准化,强调考试实践层面的标准制定,力图以教育测量理论与技术的科学性保证考试的公平性,对内地的高考改革有着较强的借鉴意义。     

Accelerated Schools for Quality Education: A Hong Kong Perspective

This article addresses the application of the Accelerated Schools Project (ASP) model in Hong Kong, as well as specific aspects of implementation in two schools. One lesson from the localized project, the Accelerated Schools for Quality Education (ASPQE), is that change is slow. This suggests that time should be given for both cultural change and building communities of inquiry, especially in cases where the staff may not be initially receptive of school reform models such as the Accelerated Schools Project. A second important lesson is that the commitment of the principal and a core group is critical for change.     

新世纪香港高中教育制度改革述评

自新世纪以来,香港对其高中教育制度进行了全方位的改革。这次改革有如下几个特点:在培养目标方面,强调学生的多元化发展;在课程方面,强调内容的平衡性;在评核制度方面,强调设计与实施的科学性等。     

Teacher Appraisal in Hong Kong Self-Managing Secondary Schools: Factors for Effective Practices

The two most important purposes of appraisal in schools are teacher improvement and personnel decision making, which are often referred to as formative and summative purposes, respectively. Staff appraisal was introduced to Hong Kong secondary schools participating in the School Management Initiative scheme. These schools have adopted a school management system based on the principles of self-managing schools. Data on appraisal systems as well as teachers recent experiences of appraisal were collected in a survey. This study has found that the overall perceived effectiveness of an appraisal system is related to both its formative and summative outcomes. The formative outcomes for teachers are associated with teachers attitudes to the formative purposes of appraisal, the appraisal procedure, and most important, the nature and quality of feedback received. The study has also found that summative outcomes and formative outcomes are interrelated.     

Environmental Consciousness among Students in Senior Secondary Schools: the case of Hong Kong

This paper examines the level of environmental consciousness of students in an education system where curriculum objectives emphasised in the classroom are often strongly shaped by public examinations. The study sample was drawn randomly in 1993 from Secondary 5 geography classes taught by teachers who had earlier completed a survey on style and emphasis in the teaching of environmental issues. Respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire on environmental understanding, attitude and behaviour. A sample of them was given a further set of questions on participation in activities and lifestyle patterns with an environmental bearing. Findings indicate that respondents had only a limited understanding of environmental issues, especially with respect to higher order cognitive objectives like synthesis and evaluation and the comprehension of information presented in various diagrammatic forms. In terms of attitude and behaviour the degree of concern for environmental quality was also limited. Most respondents did not show much willingness to take an active role in environmental protection in cases where conflicts with personal freedom or demands on physical effort, expression of opinions or attempts to influence other people were involved. To a certain extent this pattern is the result of the rapid growth of materialistic values in society and the lack of attention to attitudinal and behavioural objectives in classroom teaching and public examinations. The coordinated efforts of teachers and supporting teams like curriculum planners, examiners and environmentalist associations are certainly required to improve the situation and promote the balanced development of environmental consciousness in schools.     

香港高等职业教育评介--兼论深港高等职业教育合作

香港高等职业教育发展得比深圳高等职业教育要较早而较完善,并与社会发展紧密同步,层次清晰,体系完整,国际化的程度较高,教学内容、方法和手段也较灵活。香港高等职业教育的这些特点有利于深港高等职业教育的合作。