Lessons learned? School leadership and curriculum reform in Hong Kong

Lessons learned? School leadership and curriculum reform in Hong Kong

• Tong, Annie Siu Yin Dept. of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 30(2), 231-242, 2010

Routledge

2010

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RG Education Reforms
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBA Teaching Objectives, Curriculum & Evaluation

School-Based Leadership Reform Curriculum Management Education & Educational Research

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This paper examines the processes of implementing curriculum reform in schools. Specifically, it investigates how schools learn lessons from previous experiences of reform and apply them when challenged by new reforms. The context for this study is Hong Kong's New Secondary School Curriculum (NSSC), with particular reference to the subject of English Language. Research into the enactment of change over the last decade tells a story of weak leadership and management by policy makers, schools leaders and teachers. Key areas of weakness - poor management of change by school leaders, teachers' lack of understanding of the changes, and weak teacher collaboration - were pinpointed as reasons for the dismal results of curriculum change. This study investigates whether these areas of weakness were also in the implementation of the NSSC. Data collection comprised semi-structured interviews in nine secondary schools. The study reveals that lessons had been learnt from the previous experiences of implementing reform, and suggests that the capacity of schools to learn from a historical perspective should be taken into account in curriculum planning.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 02188791

• 10.1080/02188791003722000

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/98a26d10

2010-11-28