Journal Articles
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
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- 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]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 02680939
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/0cb2ff2d
- 2010-09-27
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