The romance and reality of policy-making and implementation: A case study of the target-oriented curriculum in Hong Kong

The romance and reality of policy-making and implementation: A case study of the target-oriented curriculum in Hong Kong

• Lam, Chi Chung Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Journal of Education Policy, 18(6), 641-655, 2003

Routledge

2003

• D Curriculum
  • DA Objectives & Outcomes

Educational Change Education -- Curricula Instructional Systems Education & State Hong Kong China

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

One of the major innovations in the recent wave of education reform in Hong Kong is the target-oriented curriculum. An interesting feature of this new curriculum initiative was its amoebic characteristics - changing shape and focus in its course of development. It was reshaped from an assessment system for accountability purposes to a centrally developed curriculum initiative for improving teaching and learning, and finally to a school-based curriculum development. In this paper, this course of development and the reasons behind it will be described and analysed. The study suggests that the two-tier educational policy and implementation system in Hong Kong is a major cause leading to such a phenomenon. If this system were not improved, the possibility of achieving real changes at the school and classroom level would be low.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 02680939

• 10.1080/0268093032000145890

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2010-09-27