Policy into practice in Hong Kong pre-primary kindergartens: the impact of a reform agenda viewing early childhood as the foundation for lifelong learning

Policy into practice in Hong Kong pre-primary kindergartens: the impact of a reform agenda viewing early childhood as the foundation for lifelong learning

• Yelland, Nicola Jill Victoria University, Melbourne
• Leung, Wai Man Vivienne The Education University of Hong Kong

Early Years: An International Research Journal, 2016

Routledge

2016

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RG Education Reforms

Hong Kong Preschool Curriculum Pedagogies Early Childhood Policy

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

In this paper we outline the provision of pre-primary education in the Hong Kong SAR and discuss how the educational reform initiatives of 2000 (Learning to Learn) and global imperatives provided the impetus to reshape a new educational approach to early childhood education. We use the example of a half-day pre-primary (kindergarten) programme to illustrate the ways in which policy and guidelines are enacted and how they appear to reflect all the attributes of the reform movement that have adopted contemporary ideas from the international educational arena. We highlight the interpretations and enactments of these new educational imperatives in a system that has a long history of different cultural pedagogical traditions that often do not resonate with western pedagogical approaches.
[Copyright © 2016 TACTYC.]

• English

Journal Articles

• 09575146

• 10.1080/09575146.2016.1234433

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/195a3519

2017-04-11