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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
  • Journal of Education Policy, 18(6), 641-655, 2003
  • Routledge
  • 2003
    • 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.
    [Copyright of Journal of Education Policy is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268093032000145890]
    • English
  • Journal Articles
    • 02680939
  • https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/0cb2ff2d
  • 2010-09-27

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